What’s Behind Hillary Clinton’s Drop in the Polls?
All summer long, Hillary Clinton’s support from Democratic voters has withered. In poll after poll, the slide has been captured in close to real time as the former secretary of state campaigns for president while struggling to contain the fallout from revelations that she used a private e-mail address and server on which she conducted government business.
Ongoing revelations in the e-mail story—which was first broken by the New York Times on March 2—correlate with Clinton’s steadily declining poll numbers and were again cited by the Washington Post on Monday with the release of the latest national survey showing a steep drop in Democratic support for Clinton.
“The period since the last survey coincides with the news that the FBI is looking into the security of e-mails sent over a private server Clinton used when she was secretary of state, as well as an intense media focus on her response to the controversy,” the Post‘s Karen Tumulty wrote. “The episode has raised questions about her judgment and revived memories of the scandals that plagued the presidency of her husband, Bill Clinton, in the 1990s.”
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