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6 decades of decreasing favorability

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Yoram Gat

Gallup has been tracking U.S. presidential candidate favorability ratings for 60 years. It turns out that this year’s candidates have the lowest net favorability (i.e., % favorable minus % unfavorable) ratings observed over those six decades, with, for the first time, both candidates having negative net ratings. Even more interesting, there is a steady trend of decline in favorability over the years.

Filed under: Elections, History, Opinion polling |

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2016 review – sortition-related events | Equality by lot, on December 29, 2016 at 12:46 pm said:

[…] status-quo. For the first time, the U.S. presidential elections featured major party candidates who both had negative net favorability ratings. A study reported that citizens all over the Western world – and in particular, rich citizens […]

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Wang Shaoguang: Representative and Representational Democracy, Part 2 | Equality by lot, on August 15, 2020 at 10:08 am said:

[…] incentivizing corruption, a system whose outcome is a never ending sequence of disappointments and an electorate who is increasingly cynical about politicians and about the electoral system. Only in electoralist dogma can “electoral […]

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