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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the two most unpopular presidential candidates in modern times. But, as I point out in today’s Washington Post, in a year of bipartisan lows, Hillary Clinton recently reached a new low, when an NBC News poll found that just 11% of Americans say she is honest and trustworthy. By contrast, a 2013 Public Policy Polling survey found that 14% of American voters believe in Bigfoot.

That means more Americans believe that a large, hairy, man-like Sasquatch creature inhabits the forests of North America than believe that Hillary Clinton tells the truth.

So what else do more Americans believe in than Hillary Clinton’s honesty? According to PPP’s survey:

28% of voters believe secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government, or “New World Order.”

21% of voters say a UFO crashed in Roswell, NM in 1947 and the US government covered it up.

15% of voters say the government adds secret mind-controlling technology to television broadcast signals.

15% of voters think the medical industry and the pharmaceutical industry “invent” new diseases to make money.

14% of voters say the CIA was instrumental in creating the crack cocaine epidemic in America’s inner cities in the 1980s.

13% of voters think Barack Obama is the anti-Christ (literally, not figuratively).

That’s not all. In 2009, the Pew poll on religion found 29% of Americans claim to have communed with the dead, and 16% of Americans believe in casting a curse on someone using the “evil eye.” Think about that: according Pew, more Americans believe in the “evil eye” than believe Hillary Clinton is honest and trustworthy.

The exact same number of Americans (11%) say Clinton is trustworthy as say the United States government knowingly allowed the attacks on September 11th, 2001 to happen.

The good news for Clinton? More Americans believe she is honest than believe that:

Shape-shifting “lizard people” control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our societies (4%).

The moon landing was faked (7%).

Osama bin Laden is still alive (6%).

The government adds fluoride to our water supply for sinister reasons (9%).

Paul McCartney actually died in 1966 (5%).

The exhaust seen in the sky behind airplanes is actually chemicals sprayed by the government for sinister reasons (5%).

So in the words of the great Bill Murray, she’s got that going for her…which is nice.

For his part, Donald Trump does not fare much better. According to NBC, only 16% of voters say he is honest and trustworthy. That puts him slightly ahead of Bigfoot, ties him with “evil eye” believers, but puts him behind believers in UFOs and authoritarian world government.

In other words, this election is a train-wreck. Sigh.