It's getting interesting

The closer we get to the February 1 Iowa caucuses, the more interesting are the Democrat and Republican races for the presidency. Virginia Postrel writes,

The DC Establishment is really rallying to Trump: Bob Dole, Peter King, Rudy Giuliani, now Chuck Grassley. Screw the country--they're determined to stop Cruz by any means necessary. (These aren't actual endorsements...yet...just flirtations combined with attacks on Cruz.)

Which politicians are viewed most favorably? That is the question Nate Silver examines at the number-crunching website Five Thirty Eight.

We’ve got an unpopular set of presidential candidates this year– Bernie Sanders is the only candidate in either party with a net-positive favorability rating — but Trump is the most unpopular of all. His favorability rating is 33 percent, as compared with an unfavorable rating of 58 percent, for a net rating of -25 percentage points. By comparison Hillary Clinton, whose favorability ratings are notoriously poor, has a 42 percent favorable rating against a 50 percent unfavorable rating, for a net of -8 points. Those are bad numbers, but nowhere near as bad as Trump’s.

Go here to see Silver's charts.