Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Obama Would Thump Trump. Romney Would Conquer Clinton.

Hypothetical matchups in a Bloomberg poll expose the weakness of both candidates.

November 7, 2016 at 11:00 AM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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It’s often said that the only candidates who could lose to Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton are Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Here’s one indication that it’s more than a wry joke.

The latest Bloomberg Politics national poll asked voters who they’d support in hypothetical matchups between Trump and President Barack Obama, and between Clinton and the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.