Donald Trump Less Popular Than Lice (Among Other
Things)
By
Samuel Warde
MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow presented the results of a new Public Policy Polling (PPP) poll that found, among
other things, that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is less popular
than lice.“
Yet,
contrary to media narratives about a party split, Republican voters are shown
as likely to vote for him and even Republican politicians who said terrible
things about him are eating their words and supporting him.”
Maddow
began by assuring viewers that the poll is real. “I am not making this up to
entertain you,” she said, adding “Even though I am sometimes tempted to do
things like that, this is real.”
Speaking
of the poll, Maddow explained: “Not to nitpick, but this new national polling
also finds that Mr. Trump is viewed less favorably than not just lice, but also
traffic jams; used car salesmen; hipsters; the DMV; jury duty; the band
Nickelback; and also root canals.
Maddow
also reported that Trump’s popularity compared to cockroaches and hemorrhoids
was split between men and women.
“Women
voters actually prefer both cockroaches and hemorrhoids to Donald Trump,” she
explained, noting that it was “weird” that it “turns out there’s a gender split
on those particular issues.”
The poll was not released
until this morning and confirms Maddow’s report.
The
PPP site reports, along with the poll results, that:
Much has been made of Trump’s unpopularity over the course of this campaign and certainly we find that to be the case too- only 34% of voters have a favorable opinion of him to 61% who have an unfavorable one.
But we decided to take it a step further in finding out just how much people dislike Trump, by matching him in a series of heads to heads with things such as root canals, cockroaches, and even hipsters to see who voters had a higher opinion of.
