What do you get when you combine a dysfunctional Congress, a divided American public, and several hundred million dollars worth of negative ads? A whole bunch of unpopular candidates, that’s what.
In top-tier races around the country, voters are struggling to decide between politicians that they fell lukewarm about at best and outright contemptuous of at worst. A number of high-profile contests feature not one, but two candidates who polls show are more disliked than liked by the state’s electorate. CONT.
Benjy Sarlin, MSNBC