Celebrity homeowner Hillary Clinton is a terrible politician, a Free Beacon analysis has found. This is one of many reasons why some observers have concluded she will never be president.
Clinton, who may ultimately decide not to run for president because, among other factors, the job only pays $400,000 a year, is not polling as well as one might expect of an "inevitable" candidate. A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal found that 50 percent of American adults could see themselves supporting her for president, compared to 48 percent who could not.
Sure, Clinton’s poll numbers are much better than those of her potential challengers, who aren’t as universally recognized. More than a third of voters, for example, don’t know who Elizabeth Warren is; almost 60 percent have never heard of Bernie Sanders.
Even so, Clinton's favorability numbers are trending down. She can’t sell books. She can’t sell magazines. She can’t draw crowds at universities. Most worrisome for the professional public speaker is the finding that 71 percent of registered voters want the next president to "take a different approach than Barack Obama has," compared to just 23 percent who want a similar approach. That suggest a public mood similar to the one that existed in the final years of the George W. Bush administration. (Context: Hillary Clinton was a member of the Obama administration.)
Hillary has generally preferred to avoid taking a position on controversial issue, but she did come out boldly in favor of the notion that "black lives matter." She also denounced the use of enhanced interrogation tactics in the wake of the September 11th attacks. A recent poll found that 59 percent of Americans think the use of harsh interrogation techniques were justified, compared to 31 percent who said otherwise.
Not surprisingly, Clinton did not weigh in on the controversial spending package recently passed by Congress. Her potential Democratic rival, Elizabeth Warren, caused a stir by attacking Citigroup for authoring a provision to roll back Wall Street regulations. As it turns out, Citigroup is the largest financial donor to Hillary Clinton over the course of her political career. Clinton will have plenty of time to explain herself in the coming years, but preliminary analysis suggest that she lacks the political acumen to do this successfully.