--- title: Lincoln Chafee: Zero Percent Support According to New Poll description: Data released Wednesday shows that percent of people who say they'd back Chafee for the Democratic nomination was zero in both June and July canonical: https://time.com/3958783/lincoln-chafee-poll-zero-support/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-15T16:43:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:12.479Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: Nobody Wants Lincoln Chafee to Be President og:description: The Democrat is currently polling at zero percent og:url: https://time.com/3958783/lincoln-chafee-poll-zero-support/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1dbaae7f13eb6a3/69885b04e20a87a5b5a8c4cf/lincoln-chafee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2379 og:image:height: 1338 og:image:alt: Lincoln Chafee og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: Nobody Wants Lincoln Chafee to Be President twitter:description: The Democrat is currently polling at zero percent twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1dbaae7f13eb6a3/69885b04e20a87a5b5a8c4cf/lincoln-chafee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lincoln Chafee's Presidential Bid Has Zero Support, New Poll Says > Sponsored content. 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Brief is TIME's Washington newsletter, written by senior correspondent Philip Elliott. It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, three times a week. It reaches 85,000 subscribers with a 37.0% open rate as of August 2026. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 15, 2015 4:43 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee meets with voters during a campaign stop in Laconia, N.H. Democratic presidential candidate former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee meets with voters during a campaign stop in Laconia, N.H. Jim Cole—AP  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 15, 2015 4:43 PM UTC Plenty of Democratic presidential hopefuls are trailing Hillary Clinton in polls, but no candidate seems to be trailing more than former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, who has [literally zero support](http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-national-democratic-primary) according to new data from Monmouth University. The numbers, released Wednesday, show that the percent of people who say they’d back the little-known Chafee for the Democratic nomination stood at zero in both June and July. Clinton, meanwhile, is currently pulling 51% of support in the poll, down from 57% last month, and Bernie Sanders has 17% of support, up from 12% last month. The sample of 1,001 adults has a margin of error of 5.2 percentage points, so maybe Chafee’s just getting unlucky with the polls two months in a row. But even fellow candidates Jim Webb and Martin O’Malley each garnered support from 1% of poll participants this month. _Read next:_[_Lincoln Chafee Is Trying to Re-Run Obama’s 2008 Playbook_](http://time.com/3851723/lincoln-chafee-hillary-clinton-iraq/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3958783/lincoln-chafee-poll-zero-support/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3958783/lincoln-chafee-poll-zero-support/"},"headline":"Lincoln Chafee's Presidential Bid Has Zero Support, New Poll Says","datePublished":"2015-07-15T16:43:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:12.479Z","description":"Literally zero","url":"https://time.com/3958783/lincoln-chafee-poll-zero-support/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Lincoln Chafee"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1dbaae7f13eb6a3/69885b04e20a87a5b5a8c4cf/lincoln-chafee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1dbaae7f13eb6a3/69885b04e20a87a5b5a8c4cf/lincoln-chafee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lincoln Chafee","caption":"Lincoln Chafee","creditText":"Jim Cole—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3958783/lincoln-chafee-poll-zero-support/","name":"Lincoln Chafee's Presidential Bid Has Zero Support, New Poll Says"}}]}] ```