Rush Limbaugh (pictured in 2010) noted that only one candidate earned a higher share of favorable than unfavorable opinion in the results of a Democratic automated polling firm's national survey of registered voters. | Getty Rush Limbaugh's 2016 slogan: 'Everybody sucks'

Neither party is likely to embrace the 2016 slogan offered up by Rush Limbaugh as he discussed the candidates' deeply negative ratings on his Friday show: "Everybody sucks."

Ticking through the results of a Democratic automated polling firm's national survey of registered voters released the previous day, the radio host observed that of the five candidates left running (plus Mitt Romney), only one earned a higher share of favorable than unfavorable opinion. (Individuals often record higher unfavorable ratings in automated polls, as opposed to those conducted by live callers.)


"Don't know why Romney's in this, but he is," Limbaugh said, going through the favorability numbers of all candidates.

In that list, he asked his listeners if they realized that among "[Donald] Trump, [Ted] Cruz, [John] Kasich, Romney, Hillary [Clinton], [and] Bernie [Sanders], nobody is liked?"

"There isn’t anybody except one candidate who has a higher favorable than unfavorable rating. Out of all people, it’s Kasich. Kasich also happens to be the one the least heard from. So I think that’s how you chalk it up," Limbaugh said.

Though Kasich did pull the only net favorable rating in that survey, it was within the 3-point margin of error, at 41 percent approval. to 39 percent disapproval.

"I mean, if you want a campaign slogan for 2016, I mean, ‘Everybody sucks,’" he remarked. "Other than Kasich, everybody is disliked by a far greater number of people than like them."

He continued, remarking that the poll did not include "numbers for whoever the Republican establishment might choose to be their nominee in a contested convention, like Jeb [Bush] or Paul Ryan or whoever else.”