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Voters in the NBC/WSJ poll: "We don't like our candidates very much"
Beyond the horserace numbers, the approval ratings, and opinions about tomorrow's Benghazi committee testimony,
maybe the biggest finding in our new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll
is how the American electorate -- at large -- doesn't care for the 2016
field. Every major candidate in the poll, including non-candidate Joe
Biden (at least for now), gets a majority of voters saying they are
uncertain/pessimistic about their ability to do a good job as president
vs. optimistic/satisfied. According to our pollsters, there is no
precedent for that level of negativity for the ENTIRE FIELD in the
history of the NBC/WSJ poll on this question. "We don't like our
candidates very much," co-pollster Bill McInturff (R) said in summing up
the finding here. "There is no single candidate who got a net-positive
rating [on this question]. There is simply no precedent for that." The
numbers:
- Biden: 46% optimistic/satisfied, 52% uncertain/pessimistic (-6)
- Sanders: 43% optimistic/satisfied, 50% uncertain/pessimistic (-7)
- Carson: 42% optimistic/satisfied, 50% uncertain/pessimistic (-8)
- Clinton: 43% optimistic/satisfied, 56% uncertain/pessimistic (-13)
- Rubio: 39% optimistic/satisfied, 52% uncertain/pessimistic (-13)
- Fiorina: 31% optimistic/satisfied, 55% uncertain/pessimistic (-24)
- Bush: 36% optimistic/satisfied, 62% uncertain/pessimistic (-26)
- Cruz: 29% optimistic/satisfied, 61% uncertain/pessimistic (-32)
- Trump: 32% optimistic/satisfied, 67% uncertain/pessimistic (-35)
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