Double Negatives: More People Express Unfavorable Views of Both Parties % saying they have an unfavorable view of BOTH the Republican Party and the Democratic.Party
The rise of “outsider” presidential candidates such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders has focused attention on the level of political frustration in the United States. By one measure – the share of Americans who express unfavorable opinions of both political parties – that frustration has grown.
In our July survey, 24% of the public has an unfavorable opinion of both the Republican and Democratic parties. That is up from 19% in January, though little changed from yearly averages in polls conducted in 2014 and 2013 (22% each).
Double Negatives: More People Express  | Unfavorable Views of Both Parties  | % saying they have an unfavorable view of BOTH the  | Republican Party and the Democratic.Party  | 24  | 20  | 19  | 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2015  | Pew Research Center mergeddata 2015 Data for 1992-2014 based on  | yearly Research averages, Center data for mergeddata 2015 based on individual for 1992-2014 polls. based  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 