Twenty-three percent of Americans ages 18 to 35 prefer the extinction-level event to either 2016 nominee, according to the UMass-Lowell/Odyssey Millennials survey released Tuesday.
Thirty-nine percent would opt for President Obama serving a life term over either Clinton or Trump becoming president, while 26 percent would favor a random lottery electing the next president over either major-party nominee.
“We do not take our respondents at their word that they are earnestly interested in seeing the world end, but we do take their willingness to rank two constitutional crises and a giant meteor ahead of these two candidates with startling frequency as a sign of displeasure and disaffection with the candidates and the 2016 election,” said Joshua Dyck, co-director of UMass-Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion.
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