The majority of Americans don't want to vote for Cruz, Trump, or Clinton

The spring stretch of the presidential season is rough. The news cycle has revolved around the candidates for more than a year now. With the conventions around the corner, all the players are beginning to throw some elbows and fight a little dirty. It is unsurprising, then, that politics-weary Americans are beginning to get a little jaded, The Washington Post reports.

In fact, looking at the top contenders, most Americans can't find anyone who they would even want to vote for. Of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz — the three candidates who were deemed most likely to appear on the general election ballot by a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll — a whole 6 in 10 Americans say they can't see themselves supporting a single one.

Clinton manages to eke out the most support of the three in the end, with 41 percent of potential voters saying they could see themselves backing her. Sixty-one percent of voters said they couldn't ever back Cruz, and 68 percent said the same of Trump.

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Bernie Sanders wasn't determined to be within the top-three likeliest candidates to be on a general election ballot, but was the only candidate to have more voters say they could see themselves supporting him than not: 49 percent of those polled said they could see themselves supporting the Vermont senator.