WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats feel a massive disconnect with their political parties and helpless about the presidential election.
That's according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which helps explain the rise of outsider candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and suggests challenges ahead for fractured parties that must come together to win this fall.
"It feels like the state of politics is generally broken," said Joe Denother, a 37-year-old Oregon voter who typically favors Republicans.
Who'd ever have guessed? Ferret-head, Granny, or Bernie? How about we just start over?