Americans’ Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking

[Capt. Obvious]

The Democratic primary will technically march on, but Hillary Clinton is almost certainly going to be her party’s nominee. Same with Donald Trump. And voters don’t appear thrilled at the prospect: Clinton and Trump are both more strongly disliked than any nominee at this point in the past 10 presidential cycles.

Normally, when we talk about candidate likability, we use favorability ratings, which combine “strongly favorable,” “somewhat favorable,” “somewhat unfavorable” and “strongly unfavorable.” But that didn’t work so well in the Republican primary, where Trump was able to win despite a relatively low net favorability rating because his “strongly favorable” rating with Republican primary voters was among the highest in the field. So let’s look at Trump and Clinton’s “strongly1 favorable” and “strongly unfavorable” ratings among general election voters.2

These are people who don’t just like or dislike the candidates, they really like or dislike them.

No past candidate comes close to Clinton, and especially Trump, in terms of engendering strong dislike a little more than six months before the election.



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538

[ViseGrip]

1. Why is this shit even taking place? 73% polled early said NO BUSH OR CLINTON!

Are you looking for something different now? Are you surprised? No one seems to be accept for DWS and the corporate media.

[Oneironaut]

2. Both symptoms of a collapsing country.

Power is now distributed in a very small circle that is virtually impossible to penetrate. The only thing that matters is how much money you have. What we're seeing is the transition of the U.S. into a full blown Oligarchy with sham elections and a ruling elite.

[LannyDeVaney]

3. 3 interesting observations ...

1. Of each elections 2 candidates, the higher disapproval rating doesn't seem to correlate either way with who won the election. If anything, the higher disapproval ratings wins more often. I see 6 winners with higher disapproval ratings vs 2 winners with lower disapproval ratings (I ignored Carter '80 since no red data point was listed).

2. Seems to be a general trend since 2000 of a general increase in disapproval. This doesn't surprise me, as that election really divided the country into what has become a hard-line red vs blue divide.

3. Going by completed elections (i.e., not 2016) the record for disapproval rating among Democrats was 2x POTUS Obama.