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Poll: 23 percent of millennials want death by meteor over Clinton, Trump

One in four millennials would rather have the Earth destroyed by a giant meteor than send either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to the White House, according to a new poll.

UMass Lowell's Center for Public Opinion joined with Odyssey Millennials to conduct the poll. Joshua Dyck, a co-director of UMass Lowell's group, said the irreverent question was designed to get a sense of young Americans' unhappiness about the candidate choices in the upcoming Nov. 8 election.

Twenty-three percent said all major party options are less preferable than the annihilation of all life on earth by a cataclysmic collision with an object from space, but participants seemed to see a Clinton administration as a bit less threatening of a doomsday scenario than her Trump.

Fifty-three percent of poll participants said they would rather go the way of the dinosaurs than have the Republican presidential nominee win the election. Thirty-four percent said they preferred being engulfed in an apocalyptic inferno over seeing Hillary Clinton sit in the Oval Office.

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