CNN - 2016: The year of the unlikable candidate?

[Miles Archer]

Voters often talk about casting their ballot for the "lesser of two evils" in a presidential election. This year, that seems especially true: most voters really don't seem to like Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

As the race heads toward the general election, polling finds both candidates to be by far the least popular likely party nominees in decades--a dynamic that signals a bruising and nasty battle between now and November.

An ABC/Washington Post poll released Sunday found Clinton and Trump each at 57 percent unfavorable--higher than any other party nominees since the history of the Post-ABC poll. Trump's favorability rating was 40 percent (a 17-point deficit), while Clinton's was 41 percent (a 16-point deficit).

And asked whether they were voting for their candidate or against the other candidate, approximately half of each candidate's supporters said they were voting to vote against the other candidate. Among Clinton supporters, 48 percent said their vote was a vote for Clinton, while an equal percentage said it was a vote against Trump; among Trump supporters, 44 percent said they were voting for Trump versus 53 percent said they were voting against Clinton.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2016-the-year-of-the-unlikable-presidential-candidate/

[virtualobserver]

1. and they haven't even started trashing each other.....

the unfavorable numbers will go even higher.

[Miles Archer]

2. The major point of concern, which has been stated repeatedly...

...is that Trump's supporters generally don't seem to care when he gets trashed on any level. It really goes in one ear and out the other.

That, and the Trump campaign's assertion...delivered by his son last week...that everything is "fair game" when it comes to attacking the Clintons.

It's going to make the "Little Marco" and "Lyin' Ted" volleys look like a big wet smooch on the cheek by comparison.

And when Hillary emerges from underneath the protective wings of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and faces the voting public in the General Election, I hope she's ready.

[JRLeft]

3. The winner will be vulnerable in 4 years. There's an economic collapse coming.

[MaeScott]

4. RCP MAY polls for Sanders. 48 favorable, 39 unfavorable ..+9

He is not upside down in favorability ratings like the others.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/sanders_favorableunfavorable-5263.html