Based off of this article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/03/poll-says-hillary-and-trump-are-unpopular-why-could-win-anyway/#

In the polls, you would think that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are doing everything right in their campaigns. They are both front runners by a large percentage and have a lot of support from many people, but is that enough to carry them all the way through to election?

Although Clinton and Trump are both front runners for their respective parties, they are both extremely unpopular with the voters. How is that possible? There are many standard questions when choosing who you are going to vote for in any election: do you like the person, do you trust the person, do they have the same beliefs as you. These questions don’t realistically measure whether you will vote for the candidate in question. Many will vote for a random candidate because they strongly dislike their opponents. The presidential primaries are not a national contest.How you’re doing in swing states such as Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada is more important than some national numbers. Because if you win a couple of those early contests, it can fuel a huge surge that changes the polls immensely.

In my opinion, I believe that the reason Trump and Clinton are doing so good, so early on is because they are getting their names in the news. Whether it is for good or bad things, people know who they are. Clinton has been in the news since March for her email scandal and Trump has been in the news since he entered the race for just being Trump. None of these are necessarily good things, but if you are looking at a poll and you see Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump and a list of his 16 other opponents, their names will immediately stick out. If you don’t already have a strong idea of who you want to vote for the odds of you voting for them are pretty high just because you recognize them.

This problem will affect us immensely if we don’t get a hold on it. People just randomly voting will not cut it. People feel as though their vote doesn’t really matter so they do not take it seriously. If we can not trust Hillary Clinton to have a personal email without shared classified information on an unencrypted address, how are we supposed to trust her to control our nation, but not share any classified information or worse. Same with Trump, how are we supposed to trust him with all of our classified information if we can’t even trust him with the cell phone number of a senator and fellow presidential candidate. People need to make sure they know what they are voting for if we want our nation to survive.