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

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

By Harry Enten


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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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-distaste-for-both-trump-and-clinton-is-record-breaking/

[CountAllVotes]

1. Feel The Bern

Vote for the likeable candidate coming in at 80%, that is correct, 80%.

Vote Bernie Sanders 2016!

[Attorney in Texas]

2. Who thinks it's a good idea to nominate a despised candidate?

[hellofromreddit]

4. DWS

Deb is a mess.

[ViseGrip]

3. Before the race began, polling said 73% said NO BUSH or CLINTON, yet the 'party' forces

her on us. The Bernie blackout, debate schedule, voting machines, voting rolls, all the B.S. and he's still the better candidate and always will be.

[pat_k]

5. And yet people continue to insist that...

...Bernie drop out, fall in line, and deny the superdelegates the chance to reconsider.

No one can argue that the race has not completely changed since most of the Hillary delegates endorsed her. As Bernie has said:

"I think it is probably the case that the candidate who has the most pledged delegates is going to be the candidate, but there are other factors. And the other factors will be the strength of each of us in taking on the Republican candidate...."

Yes, superdelegates will probably go with the pledged delegate outcome, but given the way the race evolved, and given Clinton's unprecedented unfavorable numbers, the superdelegates MUST be given a chance to consider these factors.

I don't like having superdelegates as all, but the fact is, we have them. The Democratic Party added superdelegates to prevent a candidate they believe is too weak from taking the nomination. They must be given a chance to do their jobs.

[tularetom]

6. What if they gave an election and nobody voted?

Voted in all the down ballot races but left the presidential choice blank.

Would they get the message and start giving us better candidates to choose from?

Nah, of course they wouldn't but its still fun to think about.

[msongs]

7. the people who vote give her a 3 million votes lead over the 2 losers nt

[silvershadow]

8. I can see that. nt