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.
Hillary will either be indicted or inaugurated. There is no way she will lose if she is nominated. The Gibsmedats, feminists, and university socialists will see to that.
He wants to say that character doesn’t matter. Words don’t matter. That will be his winning slogan.
What poll have you seen where he is beating Clinton amongst likely voters?
The base will never vote for him.
Come back after he wins the nomination and tell us how this and all your other crap posts made any difference
If the election was today trump wins.
Don't mean to fight, and taunts don't impress.
That’s not what the current RCP average (some LV some RV) shows:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
and
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html#polls
While Trump is behind Clinton, both Cruz and Rubio ahead of her.
So, it looks like Bush is the ticket. Who knew?
Trump has an absolute lock on the man vote. Weenies and feminazis not so much.
I don’t want a kind quiet weenie for a president, I want a Macarthur or Patton and he doesn’t have to be my best buddy or perfectly well behaved!
Searching for the RCP current averages, I found this poll that I had not seen before:
“Pew poll: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton seen as least religious candidates”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/politics/donald-trump-pew-religion-poll-atheists/index.html
Churchill was pretty unpopular too.
The Standard Weakling is unfair and unbalanced.
Yea, let’s nominate him!
It’s like people who support Sanders. They won’t listen to anyone who says the American people won’t elected a socialist. When you deal with Trump supporters, they don’t want to know his biography. They don’t care what he said before. They don’t care that he brags that his word doesn’t matter. They don’t care that he has a bad character. They BELIEVE in him. They BELIEVE in him even when he contradicts himself, switches his views 180 degrees, and when he insults everyone else. To them, it doesn’t matter if he is only liked by them. They’ll win without a majority somehow.
We’re not electing a Pope. We’re electing a president.
He is the most popular unpopular candidate in history
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