An Era of Perpetually Unpopular Candidates

FiveThirtyEight: “It’s historically unusual for any major-party nominee to be this unpopular — let alone both of them.”

“It’s possible that, with most Americans entrenched in their partisan camps and believing that the country is on the wrong track, we’ve entered an era of perpetually unpopular presidential candidates. Before 2016, no presidential nominee in at least 36 years was more than 9 percentage points underwater; since then, five of the six have been.”