For many this election season, choosing between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is a game of pick-your-poison. It appears that is overwhelmingly the case for active duty service members, 38.7 percent of which said in a recent poll that they prefer Libertarian alternative Gary Johnson, The Hill reports. Trump was preferred by 30.9 percent of respondents, and Clinton by 14.1 percent.
The poll was conducted by the "popular military personality" Doctrine Man, and the numbers ought to be taken with a grain of salt — the study was not scientific, and does not have a margin of error. But reaching approximately 3,500 members of the military, it is certainly a good indication of the dissatisfaction active military soldiers have with the current major party candidates. Read all of the results over at The Hill.
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