Posted on 01/31/2016 2:23:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican front-runner Donald Trump has the highest unfavorable ratings of any presidential candidate in either party in the 2016 field, a Gallup poll released Saturday found.
Sixty percent of those surveyed gave the business mogul unfavorable ratings, while a third said they viewed him favorably, for a net favorability rating of -27.
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Jeb Bush are tied for second-lowest net favorability ratings with -10 each.
Among other Republican candidates, Bush's 45 percent unfavorable rating is the next-worst after Trump.
Following him are Chris Christie at 38 percent, Ted Cruz at 37 percent, Marco Rubio at 33 percent and Ben Carson at 30 percent.
Clinton's unfavorable rating is 52 percent. Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders' is 31 percent.
The numbers pose a striking contrast to the fact that Trump dominates the Republican field in polls nationally and in most early-voting states.
..."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. Gallup routinely reports favorable ratings based on national adults, but some of the favorable ratings in the final months of an election year that I discuss below are based on registered voters."...
I’ll take unfavorable and winning over favorable and sing. The good news is Hillary has about the same unfavorables. People are tired of nice guy loser like Romney. And Cruz’s problem is he is mean and nasty and losing in the polls.
Based on who took the poll, the wording of the poll and where the sampling took place.
At this point, what can we tell regarding real from manipulated from pollsters Trump refused to pay?
Well, the last line of the article pretty much concludes that it’s, at best, senseless.
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Donald Trump, Pope Francis Tie in 'Most Admired Man' Gallup Poll
Trump wins...get over it!
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Oh, OK.
Another worthless poll from the MSM telling me whom to vote for.
*YAWN*9
For years people have been talking here at FR about how Hillary would never be president because her unfavorable numbers were so high.
Kinda funny how conservatives here are managing to negate that advantage.
I do noy understand where this Cruz is nasty **** is coming from.
I heard Donald say it first
Trump is going to win more states than W did.
I don’t know what the truth is with the GOPe and Democrats involved.
So let's say it's Trump vs Clinton and the unfavorables turn out to be a wash because they both have high ones. Then it becomes a clash of ideas. When it comes time to choose do you think Hillary has a better vision of what's best for the country than the Donald does? Or will you be so spited by his win that you stay home?
I think I know Ted Cruz ,Heck I think I know Trump and Hillary too, but they could all be UFOs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ycpILWFsnI
I took a poll at work. The person that most want leading the company? Our boss. The person with the highest unfavorable rating? Also, our boss.
Not really done, but you get the idea.
Plug yer ears and sing La La a La alert.
Lord I hate election cycles LOL no hears my song
I am so happy to hear songs. The tedious anti candidate screeds, not so much. Hat tip.
It is what it is
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