USA never seen anything like this when both Republican and Democrat party nominees are not only disliked but hated mostly by majority of intellectual masses in election year. It’s the paradox of the 2016 US presidential elections that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, both are widely unpopular. Two thirds (65 percent) of voters have unfavorable opinions of the Republican billionaire, and only a quarter (24 percent) think positively of him, according to a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC survey. In Clinton’s case, 56 percent are down on her, while only 32 percent see her in a favorable light, the same poll found.

Whole America is puzzled as voters facing a tough choice between two such unpalatable, unprincipled candidates who are total unfit to become POTUS (President of the United States).

Various American Political Pundits, eminent Political Science Professors from Columbia to Harvard University expressed frustation over 2016 Presidential race as it doomed to become a contest between two most unpopular presidential candidates.

Trump, 69, an unpredictable political outsider who has never held elected office, has antagonized substantial portions of the electorate with his insults against women, Mexicans and Muslims and all kind of minorities. 

The very experienced and circumspect Clinton, meanwhile, has struggled to win over many voters who have trouble relating to the 68-year-old White House aspirant.

“It has to do with the way we select candidates,” said Columbia University professor Robert Shapiro.

In 2012, only about 16 percent of Americans eligible to vote participated in party primaries.

“Those who vote in primaries and caucuses are more often activists and extremists within the party. The average American barely votes,” Shapiro said.

With 17 candidates in the race for the Republican nomination, Trump only needed “a very small segment of the American electorate” to become his party’s standard bearer, he added.

Hillary Clinton profited from the fact that she had little competition, except from Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who continues to nip at her heels.

“Other capable Democrat candidates decided not to run, because this is a bad year for Democrats to run for president,” said Shapiro, alluding to the difficulty of getting elected to succeed a two-term president from the same party.

A CNN poll put their unpopularity at 56 percent and 49 percent respectively.
“Historically, we haven’t seen this kind of thing before,” said Jeanne Zaino, a political scientist at Iona College. “It would be one thing if you had one, but this is... the two frontrunners.”

Trump and Clinton also suffer from the fact that they are so well known, said Zaino.

“These are two people who have been around a long time, so people have very strong opinions about them on both sides of the aisle,” she said.

Americans know all about them—their strengths, their weaknesses, the trajectory of their lives.

Clinton, who has long dreamt of being the first woman president of the United States, has been in the public eye for more than 20 years: she was first lady during Bill Clinton’s 1993-2001 presidency, senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Trump has been a celebrity even longer, famed for his wealth, his skyscrapers, his two divorces and a hit reality TV show, “The Apprentice,” which he hosted for more than 10 years.

“A lot of Democrats feel like the Democratic party has become the party of the Clintons and a lot of people are not happy with that,” said Sam Abrams, an expert at Sarah Lawrence College.

“For many of my students, they have never known an era when a Clinton or a Bush was not president or dominating national politics,” he said.

Trump's latest leaked tape of "grab women by pu**y" put the fatty showman on par with street slangers.

Republican Party was slammed like a crash-test dummy by last week’s revelation of a videotape in which Trump boasts about how his celebrity entitles him to kiss, grope and seduce any beautiful woman who comes near him.

GOP luminaries such as Arizona Sen. John McCain, the party’s standard bearer in 2008, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the No. 2 guy on the Republican ticket in 2012, along with numerous members of Congress, have announced that they can no longer give even grudging support to Trump.

New polls indicate that women across the country will vote against Trump in even more lopsided numbers than already anticipated.

Similiar situation with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's unpopularity as her wikileak tapes continue to expose her close bonds with Middle-East, Islamic fundings over $250 million to Clinton Foundation, followed by massive 30,000 secret, classified email leaks which made her unfit to lead the country. 

Hillary's biggest enemy is her failure as Secretary of State (Foreign Minister), added by her husband Bill Clinton's playboy image, as former President  was impeached by the US House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, on December 19, 1998 for sex scandal with intern Monika Lewinsky at White House.

From India's strategical point of view, Republican Presidents always served India's interests well than their Democratic counterparts.

Historically, Republican Presidents like George W. Bush was instrumental in signing US-India Nuclear deal which would have been impossible under any Democrat Presidents like Bill Clinton of Barak Obama as Demcrats foreign policy always tilted towards India's arch-enemy Pakistan.

Every Democrat Govt supplied billions of dollars aids, soft loans to Pakistan for medicare to education to various important sectors, but Pakistanis used those fundings to buy more arms, then creating & funding various terrorist networks which ultimately responsible for unrest in Kashmir.

Apart from that, during Democrat President Bill Clinton's era, Pakistan was showered with all kinds of latest fighter jets like F-16, F-18 at nominal prices on the pretext of fighting Russians on Afganisthan frontier. 

So when it comes to India's strategic interests, a Reublican President will hammer Islamic Terrorism, with counter Pakistan and China, which in turn will bring down India's rising defence expenditures on all frontiers.

Donald Trump maynot be the perfect fit for Prez candidate but he is an excellent candidate to hit Islamic terrorism very hard. Russian President Putin and Trump together are capable to eliminate Islamic terrorism from world.

Apart from that, Pakistan is scared of Trump, so only HIllary can save Pakistan with the billions of dollars American aid every year. 

In 2016 election race, Hillary is ahead of Trump due to minority hispanics, blacks and liberals support base but Trump might spring a surprise on Nov 8 Election Day...which we never know at this point. 

Either way, 2016 US Presidential Election will be remermbered as the contest between two most unpopular candidates in American history.

Writer is a US based Network Communications Engineering Architect with 20+ yrs experience in Internetworking, Network Security and previously worked at General Electric, Cisco Systems, Bank of New York, Merrill Lynch, NYC Govt DoITT,  NEC , Hewlett Packard.