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As opposed to Mr Trump's extreme narcissistic arrogance????? really????
I guess always vote for the buffoon and guess what you'll get.
I think it is interesting that 9 million people choose to vote for a candidate they didn't know, no name recognition, didn't know what they stood for if they stood for anything, no money, no media, completely unknown just an unknown name on the ballot instead of choosing between Trump and Clinton.
What evidence do you have to support this claim? I cannot believe that people voted for Johnson or Stein not knowing anything about them simply because they were not a Clinton or Trump.
We can start off with this. "One in Four Americans Dislike Both Presidential Candidates."
25% of all Americans disliked, didn't want neither candidate. Of course only 6% voted third party, the remaining 19% went with in their mind the lesser of two evils or the candidate they least wanted to lose. This also included 54% of all independents who disliked or had an unfavorable view of both candidates.
In fact on election day, 57% of all independents viewed Trump unfavorably, held a negative view of him. 70% of independents had a negative view or unfavorable view of Clinton. Questions 10 and 11.
Trump wan't liked by independents, but Clinton was much more disliked than Trump enabling him to win the independent vote and thus the white house. Nationwide 56% of all Americans didn't like Hillary or had an unfavorable view of her vs. 60% for Trump. Both major party candidates set the record for the highest unfavorable's ever. They smashed the record which had been previously held by Goldwater back in 1964 at 47%. In fact, Trump and Clinton are the only two major party presidential candidates to ever have been viewed unfavorably by over 50% of all Americans. Here's the list
Highest to lowest favorable/unfavorable ratings of each major party presidential candidate. Favorable/unfavorable 1956 Eisenhower 84/12% 1964 LBJ 81/13% 1976 Carter 81/16% 1960 JFK 80/14% 1960 Nixon 79/16% 1968 Nixon 79/22% 1976 Ford 79/20% 1972 Nixon 76/21% 1968 Humphrey 72/28% 1984 Reagan 71/30% 1980 Carter 68/32% 1984 Mondale 66/34% 1980 Reagan 64/31% 1992 Bill Clinton 64/33% 2008 Obama 62/35% 2012 Obama 62/37% 1956 Stevenson 61/31% 2004 G.W. Bush 61/39% 2008 McCain 60/35% 1992 G.H.W. Bush 59/40% 2000 G.W. Bush 58/38% 2004 Kerry 57/40% 1996 Bill Clinton 56/42% 1988 G.H.W. Bush 56/39% 2000 Gore 55/45% 2012 Romney 55/43% 1972 McGovern 55/41% 1996 Dole 54/45% 1988 Dukakis 50/45% 1964 Goldwater 43/47% 2016 Hillary Clinton 38/56% 2016 Donald Trump 36/60%
Then you had an CNN exit poll who asked third party voters who they would have voted for in only a two candidate race, no third party candidates. 19% answered Trump, 16% answered Clinton, 65% said they would not have voted.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.
