Hillary Clinton’s slide in polls leaves her vulnerable

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“Despite everything,” the often interesting analyst Jamelle Bouie wrote in Slate — “everything” includes “the email controversy, foreign donors and the Clinton Foundation” — “Hillary is in good shape.” Good enough to leave her party “still positioned for victory.”

Bouie is writing in response to the ABC/Washington Post and CNN/ORC polls released last week which showed Hillary Clinton’s favorable/unfavorable numbers plunging. ABC/WaPo put them at 45-49 percent negative, the lowest since April 2008. CNN/ORC put them at an almost identical 46-50 percent negative, the lowest since March 2003.

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