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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump might be the most disliked nominees in decades | Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump might be the most disliked nominees in decades |
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The likely showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump could be a race between two most disliked candidates in decades. | The likely showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump could be a race between two most disliked candidates in decades. |
A joint ABC News and Washington Post poll released on Monday rewards Trump with a 60 per cent unfavorable rating and Clinton with a 53 per cent rating — the highest since George HW Bush earned himself 53 per cent before in 1984. That year Bush also lost the race to Bill Clinton. | |
The poll also shows Clinton and Trump in a neck and neck race, and according to Real Clear Politics average of five major outlets, the New York businessman leads the former secretary of state by .2 percentage points. | The poll also shows Clinton and Trump in a neck and neck race, and according to Real Clear Politics average of five major outlets, the New York businessman leads the former secretary of state by .2 percentage points. |
Still, 58 per cent of voters in the ABC News/Washington Post survey said that Trump is unqualified to be president and 64 per cent “strongly feel” that he needs to release his tax returns, ABC News reports. Seventy-six per cent believe Trump doesn’t show enough respect to folks he disagrees with. | |
Mitt Romney has been the only other candidate to surpass the 50 percent threshold with a 52 per cent rating in 2012. | |
In the past three decades, the highest unfavorable rating goes to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke who earned a 69 per cent rating. The difference between him and Trump, besides nine percentage points, is that Duke did not secure his party’s nomination back in 1992. | |
Bernie Sanders, who significantly trails Clinton in the delegate and super delegate count, is the only remaining candidate who is more liked than disliked with a 51 per cent favorability rating. |