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Bitecofer uses public opinion data to analyze voters’ evaluations of Clinton and Trump: the two most disliked candidates to ever run for president. When asked for the one word that best described Hillary Clinton voters overwhelmingly choose the word liar. Top words for Donald Trump include racist, idiot, and crazy. Even partisans were wary of their own party’s nominee. 50% of Democrats said that Hillary Clinton made them feel angry at least some of the time while 54% of Republicans reported being afraid of their own nominee at least some of the time. The only way either of these nominees were competitive to win the White House was by running against each other.
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Bitecofer, R. (2018). Everybody Sucks 2016. In: The Unprecedented 2016 Presidential Election . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61976-7_7
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