What's Behind Hillary Clinton's Drop in the Polls?
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waits to be introduced at a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on September 10, 2015 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty ImagesAll 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.