Are we preparing to elect a president that most people hate?

Hotair ^ | 02/01/2016 | Jazz Shaw

[Parmy]

Question: If most people hate the candidate, how can he be elected?

[patq]

I would have given McCain and Romney an unfavorable rating, but I still voted for both of them. My unfavorable rating for Obama was even higher.

[GregoTX]

When I saw the headline my first thought was 2008

[beethovenfan]

So what would be new?

[nascarnation]

McLame was hated by FReepers but not so much by the general electorate. I think the general opinion of McLame was “meh”

[exit82]

For supporting evidence he points to an article by Frank Luntz where he concludes that most of us would rather support a candidate who drives the opponents crazy than somebody we’re personally in love with.

Another epic FAIL!

I wonder if the hand wringer author is still wetting his bed at night.

[Vic S]

Trump appears to me to be the only candidate that most of the country could get behind. Republicans and traditional Democrats (not progressive socialists.)

Unless you count the political establishment as over half the country, this article makes little sense.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Question: If most people hate the candidate, how can he be elected?

If you have no choice, you’ll have to select the proverbial “lesser” of two “evils” ( note the quotes ).

[cloudmountain]

Half the people who are eligible to vote don't even register. They simply don't care.

Of the other half, the 18-year-olds have the WORST voting record. 19-year-olds have the SECOND worst voting record. And so on.

The folks who always vote are LESS than 40% of the population. THEY elect the POTUS. The numbers are even worse as the voters are separated by states, counties and precincts. MOST just don't bother because they have their "cake" already.

[notdownwidems]

I thought we already had one!

[mjp]

So is there something wrong with us for propping up people we supposedly despise?

Whether a person is likable or not is a separate issue from whether or not he can do what one wants.

[SubMareener]

Well it really doesn’t matter what “most people” think about Donald Trump because we know that you hate him. We get that. Are you going to be OK tonight, or should we organize some kind of help line thread?

[Heartlander]

[RedStateRocker]

if candidate ‘A’ is hated by 80 percent and candidate ‘B’ is loathed by merely 75 percent?

[rockrr]

No. We already have one of those.

[discostu]

Look at the percentage of the population that votes. With both parties regularly nominating the unqualified and the banal it’s very easy to win an election with the majority hating you.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Didn’t the Liberal wackos already do that? He’s still in office.

[Verginius Rufus]

Notice that Bill Clinton was almost at 50% in 1992 but won in a three-way race. If someone other than Trump is the Republican nominee, he may play the Ross Perot role in 2016. If Trump is the nominee, and looks likely to beat Hillary or whoever the Democrat is, then we could find another candidate put forward to split the anti-Democrat vote again.

Anyway, Obama has signaled that he doesn't intend to let the Democrats lose this election...the only question is how he will use the powers at his disposal to accomplish that.

[DoodleDawg]

Question: If most people hate the candidate, how can he be elected?

If the two candidates are Trump and Clinton then one or the other will win regardless of unfavorables.