American voters' overall reaction to the field of 2016 presidential candidates is a resounding "Eh."
In a survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, voters were more likely to say that each of the nine leading candidates would make either a "poor" or "terrible" president than a "great" or "good" one.
Just over one-third of respondents thought that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would do well as president, while an even lower percentage rated the other candidates positively.
Voters on either side of the aisle are actually pretty optimistic about their own leading candidates, however. A majority of Democrats have high hopes for the presidency of either Clinton or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Most Republicans expect Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and business mogul Donald Trump to make America ... well, at least good again. They're less sold on more establishment-friendly GOP contenders, giving former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich net negative ratings.
But, according to the Pew report, both Democrats and Republicans dislike all of the other party's candidates, expressing enough animosity to drag everyone's ratings down.
Democrats are especially hostile toward Trump -- 64 percent say he'd be a terrible president, compared to the 26 percent or less who think any of the other Republicans would be terrible. Republicans, meanwhile, dislike Sanders but loathe Clinton, with 57 percent saying she'd make a terrible POTUS.
Pew surveyed 1,525 registered voters between Jan. 7 and Jan. 14, using live interviewers to reach both landlines and cell phones.
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