Many voters abandoning both parties' nominees

Most voters have negative feelings about both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. And a larger than usual percentage of voters are telling pollsters they wouldn’t vote for either candidate. The latter logically follows from the first.

What is the magnitude of the non-support of the two major party candidates? Significant, I think. At this point in 2012 only 9 percent of those polled said they weren’t voting for either President Obama or Mitt Romney, according to the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls. This year 15 percent in two-candidate pairings say they aren’t supporting either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.