This story was originally published on nationaljournal.com on April 25, 2016 Hillary Clinton finds herself these days moving from good news to bad news and then to good news again. The first bit of good news is that she is finally cinching up the Democratic presidential nomination. There had never been much doubt about her winning, but Bernie Sanders put up a surprisingly stiff fight. He mounted an impressive campaign and was able to effectively capitalize on a leftward shift that has made the party more protectionist and almost unrecognizable from the Democrats who elected Bill Clinton in 1992. The bad news is that the Hillary Clinton who has clinched the Democratic nomination is considerably weaker than the Hillary Clinton of two or three years ago. Various controversies, particularly one over her State Department emails, have resurrected questions about her trustworthiness, and her negatives now significantly outnumber her positives in poll after poll. The ABC News/Washington Post poll taken in March put her favorable ratings at 46 percent and unfavorable tally at 52 percent for a net of minus 6.

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