Posted on 01/30/2016 11:52:07 AM PST by conservativejoy
Research from the polling firm Gallup has found that Donald Trump is the "most unpopular candidate" for president in either major party - both in this election and all the way back to 1992.
Trump's unfavorable rating currently stands at 60 percent, which is substantially higher than that of any of his Republican rivals. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is at 45 percent, and everyone else is even lower: Chris Christie is at 38 percent, Ted Cruz is at 37 percent, Marco Rubio is at 33 percent, and the reliably likable Ben Carson is only at 30 percent.
In the Democratic field, not even the scandal-plagued Hillary Clinton matches Trump's low standing - she holds a 52 percent unfavorable rating. Her fellow Democratic contender Bernie Sanders is at 31 percent.
The numbers are drawn from surveys of the entire U.S. population, not just self-identified voters.
Gallup's editor in chief Frank Newport frames these figures historically:
"I wanted to see how Trump's unfavorable played out in the context of previous elections, so I went back to look at the unfavorable ratings of the major-party candidates from 1992 through the current election. The bottom line is that Trump now has a higher unfavorable rating than any candidate at any time during all of these previous election cycles, and that conclusion takes into account the fact that unfavorable ratings tend to rise in the heat of a general election campaign as the barbs, negative ads and heightened partisanship are taken to their highest levels."
Even when compared with sitting presidents at their most unpopular moments, Trump's unfavorable rating sticks out. The 60 percent statistic is sandwiched between Bill Clinton's high of 59 percent in March 2001, shortly after he left office, and George W. Bush's 66 percent, measured in April 2008 amid the tumultuous homestretch of his second term.
That must be why he beats Hillary with likely voters.
Yea sure.Thats why he is leading in all the polls
Unless he's running against someone with a 61% neg rating.
Which will not happen with the corrupt mainstream media that will be doing their usual filtering of information all the way up to November.
Of course. And that’s why he’s not leading in every poll.
Up is down. Black is white. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Wow yet he’s going to win. How odd. As Gallup, gallops into the sunset.
Trump just got off his Jet, and the rally is going to start
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlJGZAMFNI
This cannot be! They lie! Look at the source!
The One has not convinced many and with good reason. People have higher standards for their own friends than a braggart who tries to demoralize and destroy any who does not kiss butt.
Watching your misery Monday night when be like eating a banana split.
Apparently he isn’t hated enough by the Republican electorate.
Oh crap. I guess they transposed yeb’s numbers with Donalds. Ooppsseeee!
Nobody likes him. He's a nasty guy. He would be such a disaster. Such a disaster, that I can tell you. Believe me.
Not with KGB Putin he isn't. Putin loves the guy, as the ChiComs loved Bill Clinton.
He is unpopular with groups I like the least.
The written media is all against Trump. they cannot be objective or believable especially the Weekly Standard establishment rag
LOL!:)
Well I guess we now know with absolute certainty who liberals fear the most.
America isn’t well liked either.
Obama was elected to “fix that”.
Now we are still hated, and we are also not respected anymore.
The moral? You want to be liked, get a dog.
I have it on good authority that he kills cats and dogs, eats babies, and has had three wives!
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