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CNN: 'Really Troubling' for Clinton that So Many Voters Associate Her With Dishonesty

CNN's John Avlon calls the poll showing a significant number of voters associate Hillary Clinton with words synonymous with "dishonest" "really troubling."

By Andrew Kugle··
CNN: 'Really Troubling' for Clinton that So Many Voters Associate Her With Dishonesty

Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief John Avlon said that it is really troubling that so many voters associate Hillary Clinton with dishonesty, as reported in a new Quinnipiac poll.

"That word was ‘liar’ followed by ‘dishonest’ followed by ‘trustworthy’, ‘experience’, and ‘strong’. So that's kind of a weird mixed bag, right?" CNN host Carol Costello asked.

Costello was incorrect when she said one of the words was trustworthy.

The poll showed that voters associate the words liar, dishonest, untrustworthy, experience, and strong to Clinton.

"That’s significant, but the downward trend is troubling—and those five words you mentioned, that association at the top," Avlon said. "Those numbers are really troubling when you have five words and three of them are negative and synonyms for liars."