The Prospect of a 43-Percent President

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August 12, 2016

The Prospect of a 43-Percent President

 

By Bruce Walker

The last ten polls reporting the outcome of a four-person presidential race with the Democrat Clinton, Republican Trump, Libertarian Johnson, and Green Party's Stein gives Hillary Clinton the edge in the popular vote but leaves her with an average in those ten polls of only 44%. Her unfavorable ratings with voters remains incredibly high for a major party candidate, compounded by the fact that Hillary has been at the center of Washington politics for a quarter of a century.

 

If Hillary wins – and the polling data suggests she well may – she might be able to win the presidential election with as little as 40% of the popular vote.

 

The complete disillusionment of Americans with Washington and with the two major political parties has made presidential winners with a wafer-thin majority or even a minority of the popular vote the new norm. In the last ten presidential elections, the winning candidate received on average a pathetic 50.08% of the popular vote.