Clinton and Trump may be frontrunners — but they have record unfavorable ratings

More than half of registered voters have an unfavorable view of the top candidate in each major party, per a new CBS News/New York Times poll. Some 52 percent say they don't like Democrat Hillary Clinton, while 57 percent take a low view of Republican Donald Trump.

(CBS News)

The two candidates' net unfavorability numbers are the highest ever since CBS began asking this question in 1984. No other candidate in those 32 years has passed -20, and only two — Bill Clinton in 1992 and Walter Mondale in 1984 — have sunk lower than -10.

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