People like Nickelback more than they like Trump, poll suggests

Here are a few things people like more than Donald Trump: jury duty, lice and Nickelback.

That’s according to a poll from Public Policy Polling, a Raleigh-based firm, comparing how favorable people find the presumptive Republican nominee to more humdrum unpleasant topics. The poll surveyed 1,222 registered voters asking how they thought Trump compared.

The answer is: badly. In addition to polling worse than the widely panned Canadian band, people said they found traffic jams, used car salesmen, the DMV and root canals more favorable than the real estate businessman.

Only cockroaches and hemorrhoids polled worse than Trump did, by single-digit numbers.

It’s not the first time that Nickelback has been used pejoratively in the presidential election. One Iowa man protested outside multiple Ted Cruz campaign events earlier this year with a sign saying “Ted Cruz Likes Nickelback.”

The band took the jab in good stride, tweeting that the unknown man should be the group’s employee of the month:

The poll also asked voters how they viewed the candidates outright, without comparisons. Sixty-one percent said they had an unfavorable opinion of Trump, while 55 percent said they thought unfavorably of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders polled at 46 percent for people who thought unfavorably of the Vermont senator.

Respondents said they would still vote 42 percent to 38 percent for Clinton over Trump, barely a point above the 3.2 percent margin of error.

This story was originally published May 11, 2016 at 6:43 AM with the headline "People like Nickelback more than they like Trump, poll suggests."