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Hillary and Donald in the lead but not very popular with voters
April 27, 2016听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Ken Bickers
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are getting closer to winning enough delegates to garner their party鈥檚 nomination for president after yesterday鈥檚 鈥淪uper Tuesday鈥� primary victories. But while the victories put both candidates solidly in the lead what CU-麻豆影院 political science expert Ken Bickers doesn鈥檛 understand is how they are doing it when they have the lowest approval ratings of any presidential candidate in modern times.
CUT 1 鈥淗illary Clinton鈥檚 disapproval ratings are nearly unprecedented and hers are eclipsed by the disapproval ratings of Donald Trump. So we鈥檝e got two presumptive major party candidates with disapproval ratings that are astronomically high. (:18) And thinking back over the long history of the presidential contest the only analog I can come up with that might be as high is Richard Nixon in 1968.鈥� (:28)
According to the George Washington University Battleground Poll of the five candidates still in the race, only two - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Ohio Gov. John Kasich - have an unfavorable rating below 50 percent, at 44 and 29. The other three - former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at 56 percent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 55 percent and Donald Trump at 65 percent - are all mostly disliked.
CUT 2 鈥淚 can think of no other major party candidates in the modern era that would have disapproval rates. We are really on unprecedented territory here with this presidential election cycle.鈥� (:13)
Next Tuesday the candidates turn to Indiana for that state鈥檚 primary and then it鈥檚 on to California for the final primary on June 7.
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