Main Motivation Behind US Voters Is Blocking Unwanted Candidate

X Facebook LinkedIn Email Reddit Telegram

Almost half the American voters are going to vote “against” rather than “for,” in order to ensure that either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump doesn’t win the presidential election, according to a poll released this week.

RT reports:

Nearly half the supporters of Republican candidate Donald Trump plan to vote for him out of fear that Democrat Hillary Clinton might become president. And it’s the same, vice versa, for those who plan to vote for Hillary.

BYPASS THE CENSORS

You can unsubscribe any time. By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

“This phenomenon is called negative partisanship,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, told Reuters. “If we were trying to maximize the effect, we couldn’t have found better nominees than Trump and Clinton.”

JOIN THE MEDIA REVOLUTION - CLAIM YOUR STAKE IN ALTERNATIVE MEDIA!

The poll by Ipsos market research company was conducted for Thomson Reuters April 29-May 5, 2016.

The survey questioned 1,068 Americans, including 599 Democrats and 469 Republicans, about what will motivate them when they go to the ballot boxes in the general election on November 8. The poll has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.

In a shocking result, 47 percent of Trump’s supporters said they would vote for him only to queer the pitch for Hillary Clinton, with 43 percent saying they support Trump’s political stance and only 6 percent admitting they like the Republican US presidential candidate.

Almost mirroring their opponents, 46 percent of Clinton’s supporters have confessed the sole purpose in going to vote for Democrat candidate is to stop Trump reaching the Oval Office, while another 40 percent agreed with Clinton’s declared political program and 11 percent declared they loved Hillary personally.

The numbers are likely subject to change since there are still six months ahead of the vote, and Clinton and Trump will meet more than once during a series of national debates and the voters are going to be targeted with multimillion advertisement campaigns.