5/5/16 - Hillary Clinton’s unfavorable ratings are record breaking

[nc4bo]

Along with The Kraken's!

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

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

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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.

[cantbeserious]

1. Oh What A Wicked Web We Weave - When First We Practice To ...

eom

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Not only do I understand this, I join in it.

She is simply the worst candidate that the GOP. Oops. The worst candidate the democrats could have chosen.

This campaign will look more like a WWF prime time preview than an honest political campaign. Donald has two talents. One is self promotion. The other is figuring out his opponent and going for the jugular in a way that so stuns and rocks his target back on her high heels, that she will look like road kill on a Texas highway. Despite her bragging that she was tested over 20 yrs, she really wasn't. Certainly not in her run for the senate or her time in office. And certainly not as SecState.

I cry for our country.

[Vinca]

3. It's amazing in a country of more than 300 million people we can't manage to find 2 to run

for POTUS who are at least neutral in favorability ratings.

[99Forever]

12. There is a candidate running that has STRONG favorability ratings.

The sleazy .01% corporate masters have decided YOU won't be allowed to vote for him.

YOU have been cheated. WE have been cheated.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."-John F Kennedy

[Vinca]

20. Good point.

[bvf]

13. We have one. n/t

[PufPuf23]

21. It shows how little the establishment Democratic or GOP represents the citizens of the USA.

The situation is ugly and going to get uglier.

[tabasco]

26. Ain't that the truth?

It's truly mind boggling.

[HereSince1628]

4. Surely a consequence of decades of confrontation politics.

We are no longer -for- a set of principles we are merely -against- the 'other' party.

If I were planning to make politics mostly meaningless I doubt I could have come up with a better result.

[oasis]

5. Those ratings are sure to change before Hillary enters her second term. nt

[nc4bo]

7. .

[yourpaljoey]

11. I am guessing she will be serving those terms concurrently

[MissDeeds]

14. Ouch!

[yourpaljoey]

15. I have no comment on my alleged comment at this time

That is a cool emoticon:

[MissDeeds]

16. ...

[yourpaljoey]

19. OK, I did it, I is confessin'... guilty guilt guilty!!!

Wow: you broke me down in one fell swoop.
Your're too good for me!

[nc4bo]

6. It really is incredible there are 2 presidential candidates no one can stand!

Just incredible and crazy sad.

[rock]

8. So the first female that has an excellent chance of winning the presidency

(will in fact probable win) has the highest unfavorable ratings. Well, color me knocked over with a wrecking ball!

[PufPuf23]

22. The dislike of Hillary Clinton within the Democratic party and from the left

has zero to do with Clinton's gender.

You know that.

[rock]

23. So it's just a coincident?

Yeah, sure.

[islandmkl]

9. on the other hand, in 2017 and beyond...2/3 of the country can say:

"It wasn't my fault!"

[LWolf]

10. Way to go, America.

Clinton and Trump are both more strongly disliked than any nominee at this point in the past 10 presidential cycles.

[NewImproved Deal]

17. Sad times...

It's either Berlusconi Trump or Imelda Clinton...

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[cwydro]

18. Sure getting a lot of votes from somewhere.

[nc4bo]

24. Kick.

[pdsimdars]

25. Highest negative ratings and, first candidate under criminal FBI investigation

The records just keep piling up

[Rebkeh]

27. kr nt

[JoePhilly]

28. Yet she's beating Bernie.

Perhaps the metric you have chosen doesn't effectively predict voting behavior.

[nc4bo]

29. Feel free to address your concerns with Harry Enten, not moi. nt