How tired are you of the 2016 presidential election ? old-hat enough you ’d prefer the ending of all man to either of the prospect ? Ina raw surveyfrom UMass Lowell andOdysseyreports that almost a quarter of millennials would choose to die in a monumental meteorite strike than see Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump take up residence in the White House .
Do they truly want a massive meteorite to chance on the Earth ? Let ’s say no . But the fact that so many the great unwashed responded to the sight this way says a lot about how people sense about the election . The poll ask millennials to foot their preference between a Hillary Clinton presidentship , a Donald Trump presidency , a random lottery to choose the President of the United States from all citizen , Barack Obama give himself a lifetime term as president , and a jumbo meteorite striking the Earth and " eliminate all human life . "
39 pct of those surveil opted for Obama ’s life terminus , 26 percent said they liked the lottery option , and 23 percentage choose that humanity satisfy its day of reckoning . perhaps this is what happened to the dinosaur . They had an election that so divided their dinosaur nation , they voted en masse shot for extermination via space rock’n’roll .
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" We do not take our respondents at their countersign that they are seriously interested in seeing the world terminal , " said Joshua Dyck , co - conductor of UMass Lowell ’s Center for Public Opinion , " but we do take their willingness to rank two constitutional crises and a giant meteor out front of these two candidates with startling frequency as a sign of displeasure and disaffection with the campaigner and the 2016 election . "
In more substantive results , they found that millennials who are likely elector prefer Clinton to Trump by a 3 - to-1 margin in a head - to - head race . 12 percent of respondent were undecided . When third - party nominee were include , 61 percent responded Clinton , 22 percent said Trump , nine pct said Libertarian Gary Johnson , and five percent said Green Party nominee Jill Stein . The remaining three percent remained on the fence and probably need what happened to that option involving the meteorite .
The election is rapidly approaching , with Wednesday seeingthe last presidential debate . It remains to be seen if " giant meteor strike " can make headway as a write - in candidate before then .
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