A lot of hay has been stirred up over the highly unfavorable ratings of Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton is deep in negative territory as well.
Inquiring minds may be interested to see how Hillary and Trump stack up against announced French presidential candidates.
Unpopularity Contest
This contest pits US candidates Hillary and Trump against strong competition from France.
US Contenders
- Hillary Clinton (Democrat)
- Donald Trump (Republican)
Results formed by subtracting unfavorable views from favorable views, courtesy of Real Clear Politics.
This is the worst US set in history. How does France stack up?
French Contenders
- Current president Francois Hollande (Socialist)
- Marine le Pen (National Front – Eurosceptic)
- Former president Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP – Center Right)
Hollande Blames “Bad Luck”
The above chart courtesy of the Financial Times article Hollande Looks to Reassert Authority as French Left Turns Against Him.
- “I don’t believe much in luck, I believe in bad luck. I have had plenty since I arrived. One day there ought to be compensation,” said Hollande in Private Conversations with the President, written by two journalists who have met regularly with him since his election.
- On his inability to curb record unemployment, he is said to have complained: “I didn’t have luck!”
- In The First Secretary of the Republic, written by another journalist, Mr Hollande appears to view last year’s devastating terror attacks through the narrow prism of his political troubles. “The terror attacks were the only time when I had some peace.”
The sad thing is, someone has to win here, and there.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Hollande sounds like a textbook case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
These high-level politicians are all nutcases of one kind or another.
Yep….. $14,000 haircuts are about as humble as he will ever get.
“The terror attacks were the only time when I had some peace.”
Oh, … that explains why Hollande wants a horde of refugees in France … more “peace” coming your way …
Trump will win in November, and maybe he can begin to patch the holes in the stern bow. Sadly, whoever wins in France is irrelevant.. the French people will certain to lose and like the Titanic their EU is on its way to join the Spanish Armada at the bottom.
I hate politicians. All they ever do is try to sell you something that you don’t want, and they use your money to do it. None of them carry any skills to the job, like economics… they are all lawyers who write laws, or let corporations write laws, that nobody understands and nobody can work with. Politician after politician pile laws on top of laws on top of laws that we all forgot even existed, then they expect us to follow them. Somewhere way back in time, there exists a law that nobody knew about, and they use it against you. Reminds me of a small Mexican town north of Mexico city that had 2 traffic signals at the same intersection. When one was red, the other was green…. and, yep, you can guess how that works for them.
This one here reminds me of Trump, when every once-in-a-while, he lashes out against what is reallywrong in the system…
NONE OF THEM WILL BE ELECTED I AM BETTING ON ALAIN JUPPE
MY FAVOURITE CANDIDATE IS BRUNO LEMAIRE RECORD THIS NAME
ANYWAY I WON T SUPPORT ANYBODY FINANCIALLY AS ONCE IN POWER THEY NEVER IMPLEMENT THEIR PROMISES
I WILL JUST WATCH IN WORST CASES I WOULD FLEE ABROAD
Stephane , no accents in upper case means it sounds like you are betting on Alain the Skirt …
Please do not comment in upper case (all caps).
Turn off that caps Lock key if it is on.
I disabled mine
Mish
Did you pry yours off too? Mine is in a can of screws along with the spring somewhere in the basement.
Thanks Greg. I’d never thought to physically remove mine. Done.
Mish, Stephane has been warned many times now, but continues to ignore the warnings about her rudeness. Please ban her.
Mish- You said “sadly somebody has to win here…” But just three months ago you were all for Trump. What happened?
“I don’t believe much in luck, I believe in bad luck. I have had plenty since I arrived. One day there ought to be compensation.”
Yeah, it’s a pity… things always seem to go wrong for people with sh*t for brains. Go figure.
I was never a fan of Trump except against Hillary. I never endorsed Trump but I did say I would vote for him. I do not like Trump at all. But I like Hillary far less. She is the warmongers candidate without a doubt.
I am a Libertarian. Trump is not close. Most libertarians want Trump because he is less big government and less prone to war.
The wall with Mexico is idiotic. I believe in free trade. I believe in free choice, the one issue I would side with Hillary on.
Since Hillary is going to win Illinois easily, I may just vote for Johnson. But that is not a change of opinion. I wanted Rand Paul.
People confuse my predictions with who who I like. I predicted Obama would win before he was nominated the first time. Caught an amazing amount of flak for that. I never voted for Obama.
Mish
The Libertarian ticket of Johnson-Weld ran a radio ad this weekend. It’s the first of any candidate this election season. The basic message was. “I’m not Clinton or Trump.” It’s a simple message with no mudslinging. One of my co-workers said a couple weeks ago that if the Libertarian ticket simply said they were not the other two, they would win. Polling at 7% is a long way to go, but what an historical event it would be if the Libertarians won the election.
You voted for Obama against his senate opponent Alan Keyes, didn’t you?
After the Sun-Times outed Republican candidate Jack Ryan by getting his sealed-by-court-order California divorce papers unsealed for public consumption and all but guaranteeing upstart novice Barack Obama a seat in the US Senate.
Keyes, not even an Illinoisan, filed candidacy papers at the last minute to try and defeat Obama and save the country. His efforts were in vain.
I have never voted for Obama in my life
Mish- From this article – https://mishtalk.com/2016/03/08/michigan-declared-for-trump-in-15-minutes/ – you said, “A reader asked if I am openly rooting for Trump.
Yes, I am. I am sick of establishment, war-mongering candidates like Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio.”
You can see our confusion with this.
“A reader asked if I am openly rooting for Trump. Yes, I am. I am sick of establishment, war-mongering candidates like Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio.”
“I was never a fan of Trump except against Hillary.”
How are these comments confusing?
Maybe Mish should have said he’s rooting for the least shi++y candidate to avoid confusing the easily confused…
Michael , you are improving . I sense the purposefully twisted irony in your words ‘sadly somebody has to win here’ . Both you know and I know who that somebody is Michael . As if you needed reminding …
…. we are in this together .
I have never heard the comment that a “lot of hay” has been stirred up. I have put up hay every summer for most of my adult life and never heard anyone comment about lot being stirred up. Maybe a lot of dust or a lot of smoke, but never hay. Since you are referring to politicians it might be more accurate to refer to what is left after the hay has been fed to a herd of bulls!
Perhaps I made it up
I have been in the back wagon of a hay ride – not the place to be when the front wagon starts flinging stuff in the air and you cannot throw it back or it goes in your face.
Technically straw ride – not hay – badly misnamed
Straw is from wheat or oats (grains), hay is other stuff but usually alfalfa
Using a common idiom, the statement could be reworded as, “A lot of hay has been made over the highly unfavorable ratings of Donald Trump.”
If you’re not familiar with “hay made” either, try google.
I considered myself to be a libertarian until I realized that being one in this day and age means endorsing a national suicide pact.
How so?
Yeah doc, how so? I think the course being taken by The Big Two Parties That are Really About the Same is suicidal for America. (which is why RINO’s hate Trump, he won’t get in line).
We are trashing the Constitution, and the power is being shifted so that the government controls the People, rather than the way it was supposed to be – the other way around.
CNN has adjusted ‘Hillary leading by some big number’ to ‘How Hillary Clinton could win’.
Bush v. Kerry 2004: Not enough people could force themselves to pull the lever for a boring, disingenuous snob. Even over a shrub.
Immigration is the only issue where the damage is irreversible.