2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: New poll: Clinton -11% (37% favorable; 48% unfavorable) Sanders +5% (36% favorable; 31% unfavorable) [View all]karynnj
(60,979 posts)it is interesting that you ignore the change in the unfavorable numbers of Clinton and Sanders -- just by eyeballing the graphs, it is obvious that her unfavorables have been near constant since mid October, his seem to be rising at slightly higher rate than his favorables -- while the gap is positive for the entire period, it is shrinking. This means for both Democrats, the metric of looking at the difference between Favorable and unfavorable is getting gradually worse.
Looking at each of the Republican candidates on Pollingreport.com -- they are all getting worse on this metric as well.
That may say something about our sick media. What seems clear is that who ever wins may have less (if any) honeymoon than any past President. We could have a President who STARTS with negative favorability.