'This is unprecedented': Poll reinforces stunning fact about the presidential candidates
A poll from Monmouth University released on Monday reinforced just how unpopular both presidential candidates are this election cycle.
The number of people Monmouth surveyed who said they do not have a favorable view of either candidate, 35%, is a record.
Only 33% of respondents said they have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, and 24% said they have a favorable view of Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
"The number of voters who cannot bring themselves to voice a positive opinion of either presidential nominee is more than three times higher than in any other election in recent memory," Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a press release. "This is unprecedented."
Monmouth University
These aren't apples-to-apples comparisons - the older polls are from other surveys, not Monmouth's - but the numbers jibe with previous polls from other outlets.
In a May survey from NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, 54% of respondents said they had a negative view of Clinton, while 34% said they had a positive view. And 58% said they had a negative view of Trump, while 29% were positive.
While both candidates have high negative ratings, Clinton seems to have more support from her party. In the Monmouth poll, 85% of Democrats said they support Clinton, while 78% of Republicans said the same for Trump.
Monmouth surveyed 802 registered voters by telephone between August 25 and 28. The poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
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