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Negativity around presidential candidates may push more voters to polls

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LUBBOCK, Texas -

Recent Fox News polls show Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump do not sit well with voters.

Come November, those voters are going to have to make a decision on whether to support one of the two traditional parties, or support a third party candidate like Gary Johnson on the Libertarian ticket.

"I'll go out and vote," voter Thomas Hartman said, "and I'll probably vote for Gary Johnson."

Although a third party candidate may be appealing for those like Hartman, many will stick along traditional party lines.

"I think it's an easy message on both sides," political analyst Seth McKee said. "Hillary is very much despised among Republicans and the baggage that goes back to her husband over the past 20 or so years. So I think that there is an easy mobilizing message there on both sides of the partisan aisle to get people to vote."

McKee said all the negativity could actually boost numbers in the general election.

"Two unattractive candidates is something that will get people mobilized," he said, "because they care about the other candidate not winning,"

McKee said the sentiments are the same on both sides.

"A lot of Republicans aren't satisfied or happy that Trump is their nominee," he said, "but if you look at what Trump has said and this rhetoric that's very racially tinged and charged and you look at the coalition and the diversity in the democratic party, that's clearly something that's going to motivate the Obama coalition, as we call it, to vote for Hillary in 2016."

He expects that we could see record turnouts in some of the key battleground states.

"In a state like Florida, Ohio, those kind of states, you're gonna see turnout will be pretty robust."

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