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(118,764 posts) Mon Jan 18, 2016, 09:54 PM Jan 2016

Donald Trump Is Really Unpopular With General Election Voters

Donald Trump Is Really Unpopular With General Election Voters

by Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-really-unpopular-with-general-election-voters/

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Republican favorability, average since Nov. 1

CANDIDATE

FAVORABLE

UNFAVORABLE

NET FAVORABLE

Ben Carson 37 37 0
Marco Rubio 34 35 -1
Ted Cruz 32 39 -7
John Kasich 20 27 -7
Carly Fiorina 28 36 -8
Mike Huckabee 28 40 -12
Chris Christie 31 44 -13
Rand Paul 26 42 -16
Rick Santorum 22 44 -22
Jeb Bush 29 51 -22
Donald Trump 33 58 -25

Source: Huffington Post Pollster

We’ve got an unpopular set of presidential candidates this year– Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in either party with a net-positive favorability rating — but Trump is the most unpopular of all. His favorability rating is 33 percent, as compared with an unfavorable rating of 58 percent, for a net rating of -25 percentage points. By comparison Hillary Clinton, whose favorability ratings are notoriously poor, has a 42 percent favorable rating against a 50 percent unfavorable rating, for a net of -8 points. Those are bad numbers, but nowhere near as bad as Trump’s.

Democratic favorability, average since Nov. 1

CANDIDATE

FAVORABLE

UNFAVORABLE

NET FAVORABLE

Bernie Sanders 38 35 +3
Hillary Clinton 42 50 -8
Martin O’Malley 18 29 -11

Source: Huffington Post Pollster

This is not just a recent phenomenon; Trump’s favorability ratings have been consistently poor. It’s true that his favorability numbers improved quite a bit among Republicans once he began running for president. But those gains were almost exactly offset by declines among independents and Democrats. In fact, his overall favorability ratings have been just about unchanged since he began running for president in June:

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