‘A meteor is better than candidates’

Young Americans are so dissatisfied with their choices in this presidential election that nearly one in four told an opinion poll they would rather have a giant meteor destroy the earth than see Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the White House.

The tongue-in-cheek question was intended to gauge young Americans’ level of unhappiness about their choices in the election, said Joshua Dyck, co-director of UMass Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll alongside Odyssey Millennials.

The choice alluded to the Twitter hashtag “#GiantMeteor2016,” a reference to an imaginary presidential candidate used to express frustration about this year’s election choices.Some 53% of the 1,247 people aged 18 to 35 said they would prefer to see a meteor destroy the world than have Trump in the Oval Office, with some 34% preferring planetary annihilation to a Clinton victory.

Some 39% said they would prefer that US President Barack Obama declare himself president for life than hand over power to Clinton or Trump, with 26% saying US would do better to select its leader in a random lottery.

MICHAEL MOORE DEBUTS FILM ON TRUMP

Michael Moore has premiered a surprise film discussing the presidential election just three weeks before Americans head to the polls. “Michael Moore in TrumpLand” was shown in New York on Tuesday night in front of an audience of his fans.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film features Moore speaking about both Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on stage earlier this month in Wilmington, Ohio, a hotbed of Trump support.