New poll offers GOP a potential warning sign about the Republican primary
By Maxwell Tani
12 hours ago
(REUTERS/Chris Keane) Voters are feeling pretty negative about the Republican nominating race.
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal
released earlier this week found that while 19% of registered voters
have a more positive view of the GOP, 42% now hold a more negative view
of the party amid the months of slugging in the primary race.
Registered voters don't like the Democratic side, either, though the negative ratings for that race were far lower.
According to the poll, 17% said
they had a more favorable view of the Democratic party, while 28% said
they now hold a more negative view of the party.
And the amount of voters whose
opinions were unchanged by the nominating contests was much higher for
Democrats than Republicans.
Dissatisfaction with the
Republican presidential nominating contest isn't relegated to the left:
Even among Republican primary voters, there's significant displeasure
with the race that has been dominated by Donald Trump, the real-estate
tycoon.
Though 33% of Republican primary
voters said they had a favorable view of the Republican
Party beforehand, 23% have said their views of the GOP have worsened
during the primary.
Democratic primary voters, on
the other hand, feel far better about the suddenly more competitive
contest on their side between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). Overall, 38% of Democratic voters
said the race made the view the Democratic Party more favorably, while
7% said that they had a less favorable view of the party following the
primary.
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