Not completely sure what you're going for here, but of course I'll put something in anyway. Hope it's related.

I see two main reasons for Clinton's shifting approval ratings.

One is Clinton herself, because she isn't a naturally good public speaker, and because she allows her sensitivities to attack show too much in her responses. She can come across as evasive, ironically because she is trying to be extra clear. And sometimes she answers what she thinks the real question is, rather than staying with what was immediately asked.

Her other problem is, that the Republican Party has spent millions of dollars, and countless hours, making up all manner of false stories about her and about her Husband, and have repeatedly them endlessly for the last eight years especially.

The Republican propagandists know that it is unfortunately true, that if a lie is repeated often enough, and with enough conviction, and the people repeating it are dressed in suits, that many people will believe it, just because it HAS been repeated.

They further are good at playing the game with a straight face, which goes that they fling mud (lie stories) at someone again and again, and then stand back from the mess they've made, and say "look at all that mud! Must be something to it, if there's THAT much mud!"

It's similar to the version where they blow a bunch of smoke at everyone (propaganda) and then start chanting "where there's smoke, there's fire!"

In short, I wouldn't say that it's that the general public are "fickle," I think it's that the vast majority of people just don't realize that it takes ACTUAL WORK to think logically and to analyze facts. So they don't. And instead they roll with whatever seems to be the "going thing" around them.

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Sady Doyle


Obsession
2016
February 25, 2016



It’s hard to remember these days, but just a few years ago, everybody loved Hillary Rodham Clinton. When she stepped down as US secretary of state in January 2013 after four years in office, her approval rating stood at what the Wall Street Journal described as an “eye-popping” 69%.



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Clinton’s favorability ratings currently hover around 40.8%.


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Women often find self-promotion difficult even outside the realm of politics. For example, a 2011 study found that men are four times more likely to ask for raises than their female co-workers. Women are much more likely than men to under-estimate their abilities. When they apply for jobs, they often refuse to even submit a resume unless they’re certain they have 100% of the requisite qualifications. (The qualification threshold for men is only 60%. Think about that the next time you wonder why on Earth Donald Trump thinks he should be president–or, for that matter, when Bernie Sanders insists that his lack of foreign policy experience compared to Clinton’s doesn’t matter, because he has better “judgment.”)

http://qz.com/624346/america-loves-women-like-hillary-clinton-as-long-as-theyre-not-asking-for-a-promotion/

Not completely sure what you're going for here, but of course I'll put something in anyway. Hope it's related.

I see two main reasons for Clinton's shifting approval ratings.

One is Clinton herself, because she isn't a naturally good public speaker, and because she allows her sensitivities to attack show too much in her responses. She can come across as evasive, ironically because she is trying to be extra clear. And sometimes she answers what she thinks the real question is, rather than staying with what was immediately asked.

Her other problem is, that the Republican Party has spent millions of dollars, and countless hours, making up all manner of false stories about her and about her Husband, and have repeatedly them endlessly for the last eight years especially.

The Republican propagandists know that it is unfortunately true, that if a lie is repeated often enough, and with enough conviction, and the people repeating it are dressed in suits, that many people will believe it, just because it HAS been repeated.

They further are good at playing the game with a straight face, which goes that they fling mud (lie stories) at someone again and again, and then stand back from the mess they've made, and say "look at all that mud! Must be something to it, if there's THAT much mud!"

It's similar to the version where they blow a bunch of smoke at everyone (propaganda) and then start chanting "where there's smoke, there's fire!"

In short, I wouldn't say that it's that the general public are "fickle," I think it's that the vast majority of people just don't realize that it takes ACTUAL WORK to think logically and to analyze facts. So they don't. And instead they roll with whatever seems to be the "going thing" around them.

her ratings are high in office (lying politician and all) but drop when she runs for office

the article explains that even women tend to not feel they are worthy of promotions,,,,

Fickle public opinion

Fickle public opinion

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Pope Francis' favorability rating in the U.S. has returned to where it was when he was elected pope. It is now at 59%, down from 76% in early 2014. The pontiff's rating is similar to the 58% he received from Americans in April 2013, soon after he was elected pope.



There ya go, see even the Pope has bad spells.

Polls are pretty bad indicators of long term anything.

I mean for the most part you get several different organizations asking different questions of very few but different people.

The realclearpolitics aggregate poll you cited in another thread, most of the polls were questions asked of like 1,200 people, some fewer (if I remember correctly) like 300.

There was only one poll that questioned something like 12,000 people.

Not to mention, people ♦aren't generally being asked "do you openly support hillary over trump?" or "are you going to vote for hillary or trump," but more convoluted questions.
And a lot of poll questions are worded in ways to lead to a desired answer.

There are around 320,000,000 people in the us, speaking dozens of languages from diverse cultures and backgrounds.

320,000,000
12,000
1,200

You really think polls are an accurate indicator of anything all that relevant?
Let alone long term trends?
.003% of the population, at best, accurately represents 100%?

Polls are misused by the media to represent things that aren't really asked.
Polls are misused by politicians for propaganda and psych warfare purposes.
Then people use those headlines for confirmation bias.

So

IMO not really.
Determining accurate public opinion is flawed, and made worse trying to determine anything over the long term.

Polls and public opinion numbers are good for confirmation bias and propaganda, that's about it.

those "Stories" are a Matter of Public Record!

the misdeeds that others have done in office without similar effect?

what is it with blacks, women, and just about every non white male that constantly wants to blame the white man for every little thing in life?

her approval ratings went down because she lied to many times, plain and simple... is it the white mans fault shes a liar?




what is it with people always looking for 'fault',,,noone said whose 'fault' anything was.......its about public opinion,, if we MUST make it about 'fault'


its the publics 'fault'

the article explains that even women tend to not feel they are worthy of promotions,,,,


its not about 'white man'

its not even if she is 'lying',, everyone in politics 'lies' according to that same public opinion


her ratings are high in office (lying politician and all) but drop when she runs for office

Is Clinton a saint? Nope. But is she guilty of everything, or even ANYTHING that YOU (or some other anti-Hillary person) wants to pretend she is? Also nope.