#1 Donald Trump is less popular than Nickelback, traffic jams.
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:53 am
Ny Daily News
Donald Trump really is making America hate again, but the nation is directing its itchy ire right at him.
An eye-popping poll released Tuesday showed that Americans found the presumptive Republican nominee more stomach-churning than the even some of the most repulsive things in the world, including lice, jury duty, root canals, traffic jams, the Department of Motor Vehicles and the reviled rock band Nickelback.
Voters also had a higher opinion of used car salesmen and hipsters than they did of Trump, according to the latest Public Policy Polling survey.
On the whole, only 34% of respondents had a favorable opinion of the temperamental tycoon, compared with a whopping 61% who had an unfavorable opinion of him
But more striking were how many foul and filthy things they liked better than they did the big-mouthed mogul.
By "yuge" margins, respondents said they had a higher opinion of lice (54%-28%), jury duty (57%-35%), root canals (49%-38%), the DMV (50%-40%), used car salesmen (47%-41%) and divisive Canadian band Nickelback (39%-34%), whose drab 2001 hit, "How You Remind Me," apparently reminded voters of how much they disliked Trump.
The news wasn't all bad for Trump, though.
He won out against hemorrhoids (voters had a more favorable opinion of the swollen anal veins than they did of the mogul's swollen ego 45%-39%) and were less bugged by cockroaches (42%-46%) than they were by the vermin's vitriol.
The poll's astounding results suggest Trump's never-ending slew of detestation — for women, for Muslims, for Latinos and for countless other groups — could be backfiring.
Trump’s comments — saying that women needed to be punished for having abortions, illegal immigrants from Mexico were “rapists” and “criminals,” and that Muslims should be banned from entering the U.S. — were enough to propel him to the top of the GOP race, the survey indicates he'll have his work cut out for him in resurrecting comprehensive public opinion ahead of a general election.
Better received than Trump were many of the conspiracy theories the mogul has touted on the campaign trail.
Among voters with a favorable opinion of Trump, 65% said they thought President Obama was a Muslim, while only 13% said they thought he was a Christian, while 59% said they thought the commander-in chief wasn't born in the U.S. — compared with 23% who said they thought he was.
Less prevalent, but still present were those (7%) who agreed with Trump's claim last week that Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination plot of former President John F. Kennedy, compared with 55% who said Cruz's dad wasn't involved and 38% who said they weren't sure either way.
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Another 24% said they thought late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered, while only 42% said they thought he died of natural causes, as his autopsy showed. Another 34% said they were unsure on the matter.
But in spite of all the distaste for Trump, the brash billionaire still fared reasonably strong in a hypothetical general election matchup with Hillary Clinton.
The PPP poll, taken May 6-9 among 1,222 registered voters, found that the likely Democratic nominee would beat Trump in a general election matchup 42%-38% — barely outside the 3.2-percentage point margin-of-error.