Clinton vs. Trump: Even their supporters don’t like them

[antigop]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article70343792.html

WASHINGTON

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are unusually weak, widely disliked presidential candidates whom most people plan to vote against if the front-runners meet in the general election.

Most people who’d vote for Clinton would do so because they want to defeat Trump, not because they actually want to elect her, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

And most of those who’d vote for Trump would do it because they want to defeat Clinton, not because they like Trump.

The winner? He or she is likely to begin the presidential term without the usual honeymoon period.

“The winner would wind up one of the least popular presidents” to take office in recent times, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in New York, which conducted the nationwide poll.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

1. Yes!

[Bob41213]

2. Saw this cartoon this morning

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And found it amusing. Seem appropriate here.

[Katashi_itto]

3. Very accurate

[dubyadiprecession]

4. Yes, I don't like her....

That is why i voted for her.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Yet Hillary has a higher popular vote total than any other candidate in either party.

Hillary Clinton: 9,350,448
Bernie Sanders: 6,946,757
Donald Trump: 8,197,535
Ted Cruz: 6,263,349

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_vote_count.html

[thesquanderer]

9. Dems like her just fine

but the voting population at large, not so much. Unfavorables over 50, even after accounting for the fact that Dems overwhelmingly view her favorably, which means she's WAY underwater outside the base.

(As for vote total, that's also skewed because the Dem primary vote has been split among fewer candidates.)

[Rebkeh]

12. Yeah, no. Dems know her

Had Bernie been running for president since the 90's, they'd like him too. Probably more.

Yours is not an apples to apples comparison.

Honestly, he can only gain supporters and always does, once they see through the bias and lies peddled by the Clinton machine. Once he has them, he rarely loses them.

It ain't over til it's over.

Edited to add: I agree about the base, I just think it's even worse than that.

[DhhD]

20. Let see how much the voting population likes her after the April 16, New York City Iraqi War Protest

Those that like her; are they voting to restart a huge war in the Middle East? Are Republicans for war? Very much so. How about that crowd that receives Medicare and Social Security? Bernie wants to expand. Clinton has plans to manage the way we receive the safety net. Does that mean a fee set up by her Wall Street pal Pete Peterson?

[Avalon Sparks]

23. That's what I don't get

Do they want more war?

They never answer

[elljay]

16. You cannot conflate

voter totals from primary and caucus states. A caucus will always draw fewer voters. Yours is a meaningless statistic.

[revbones]

26. Funny how that doesn't include many states Bernie won... nt

[revbones]

6. But the Pope like Bernie

and invited him to speak at the Vatican!

[Skwmom]

7. The winner - the 1%

[liberal_at_heart]

8. It is such a strange phenomenon. Why would people vote for someone they don't like when they have an

alternative? Time after time I hear "I like Bernie, but". But nothing, why would vote for someone you don't like when you have a choice? If it is because of fear that Bernie is unelectable, that has been proven completely untrue. He has won many caucuses and primaries and he is even now ahead of Hillary in national polls. Not to mention that he beats all Republicans in the GE polls. Have we really been that well trained by our 1% masters? Could we really end up with a President no one likes? It is so bizarre.

[arcane1]

10. I think a lot of it is voting against someone they like even less.

I look forward to voting FOR someone this time!

[tex-wyo-dem]

11. Honestly, IMO I think the reason Hillary has...

The lead she does is because 1) she is liked by a majority registered Democrats and 2) many Dems see her as the best chance to beat the GOP (polls show this isn't the case, quite the opposite), and there is a lot of fear about the possibility of a president Trump.

But the trend seems to be as voters start paying attention and getting more familiar with Bernie, support shifts towards Sanders.

[liberal_at_heart]

13. I don't think she is all that liked among registered Democrats. At my caucus there was a long pause

before anyone would volunteer to be a Hillary delegate and there was only one spot to fill. The other 4 were Bernie delegates. And she was grumbling about schedules. I have to wonder if she will even show up at the county caucus.

[Rebkeh]

14. Exactly

She won't gain any suppirters, she can only lose them. While Bernie is new to most people, he can gain more and rarely loses supporters.

[TCJ70]

18. Name recognition and false beliefs about electability...

...are all she has going for her.

[stillwaiting]

15. Why vote for HRC if you like Bernie better and in the process alienate a...

... significant part of the Democratic base, completely turn youth away from the Party, and horrify independents?

How in the hell is that smart on any level?!?!

How is that GOOD for the future of the Democratic Party and our prospects of winning the White House in November?

[DhhD]

21. To the ,"i like Bernie, but," bunch: Are they proud of the the Victory Fund?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/01/how-hillary-clinton-bought-the-loyalty-of-33-state-democratic-parties/

Scroll down to find Texas.

Where do the Texas Superdelegates and Delegates stand on this?


Bernie is getting better and better to some or is it to many?

[MisterP]

17. right--the exit polls always have Clinton voters going "she's the candidate ahead of the Republican,

right?"

THAT'S the only real issue Sanders has to hit on

[Joob]

19. If most of america feels this way wouldn't that make the first female president also the most hated?

I don't understand why people who vote just because of gender would want that.

[Avalon Sparks]

22. You are correct -

[liberal_at_heart]

24. good point.

[fun n serious]

25. Donald Trump has more votes than Bernie

I don't know what that means...

[elleng]

27. 'If we are going to nominate someone who 50% of our people can't stand,

we will lose.'
Marco Rubio