“Here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into.”

Maybe the famous line that the comedy team of Laurel & Hardy used in several movies in the 1920s and ‘30s will emerge as a key theme for voter opinion of the 2016 presidential election.

A new round of results from the Marquette Law School Poll, released on Wednesday, offers an eye-catching set of facts about voter unhappiness with both of the presumptive choices for major party nominations for president. In fact, the results suggested that slipping enthusiasm about voting, particularly among Republicans, may become a major factor in the outcome in November.

How unhappy are voters? Here are a few pieces of the bigger picture that emerged from interviews between June 9 and 12 with 800 registered voters across Wisconsin (666 who were labeled likely voters, based on saying they were certain to vote):

Negative views: Both Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton are viewed negatively by majorities of voters. Sixty-four percent of registered voters have negative views of Trump and 58% have negative views of Clinton. Professor Charles Franklin, director of the Law School Poll, said he found nothing comparable to such high negatives in presidential elections going back at least to the 1970s.

Even among Republicans, Trump is viewed unfavorably by 35%, with 52% having favorable opinions of him. Clinton does a bit better within her own party – 67% of Democrats have a favorable view of her and 27% an unfavorable view.

Reduced enthusiasm: In the new poll, 78 percent of Republicans say they are certain to vote in November. That is down a striking nine percentage points from the prior Marquette Law School Poll in March, when the Republican race remained contested and Wisconsin Republicans were on their way to giving Ted Cruz a primary victory.

Among Democrats, there was an increase in interest in voting in November, with 84 percent saying they were certain to vote, compared to 81 percent who said that in March.

By comparison, Franklin said, in the Law School Poll in June 2012, 90 percent of Republicans and 80 percent of Democrats said they were certain to vote that November.

Franklin said the shifting enthusiasm among Republicans explains why Clinton did better among likely voters than among all registered voters. To be specific, among registered voters, Clinton was supported by 42 percent and Trump by 35 percent.  But among likely voters, it was Clinton 46 percent and Trump 37 percent.

Low opinions of character: Less than a third of those polled rated Trump and Clinton as honest. For Clinton, only 28 percent said she was honest. For Trump, only 32 percent said that. Less than half said either candidate “cares about people like me” – for Trump, the figure was 27 percent, for Clinton it was 42 percent. More than half (56 percent) said Clinton has the qualifications to be president, but only 30 percent said that was true for Trump.

Substantial evidence of disunity within each party: Franklin said both Republicans and Democrats face unusual numbers of people identified with their parties who say they will not vote for either Trump or Clinton – 18 percent of Republicans and 13 percent of Democrats say that. Another five percent of Republicans and four percent of Democrats say they don’t know what they are going to do. For comparison, in June 2012, only three percent of Republicans and two percent of Democrats said they would not support either major party nominee.

Among Republicans, 12 percent said the party is currently united, 41 percent said it is divided now but will unite before the election, and 45 percent said the party will still be divided in November. Among Democrats, 18 percent say the party is united now, 53 percent say it is divided now but will unite by November, and 26 percent say the party will remain divided.

The popularity of Bernie Sanders: Sanders won the Wisconsin Democratic primary in April but fell short nationwide in amassing enough delegates to win the nomination. He remains the candidate who polls the best in Wisconsin. The new poll found that 53 percent of voters had a favorable opinion of him, with 36 percent unfavorable, much better than Trump or Clinton. Among Democrats, he had ratings of 81 percent favorable and 10 percent unfavorable. Furthermore, in a hypothetical match-up, Sanders led Trump by 56 percent to 31 percent among registered voters and 57 percent to 33 percent among likely voters, both much better than Clinton.

There is still a long distance to go until the November election. But what does it say when someone who isn’t going to get a major party nomination does far better in polling than either of the people who are? Or when each of the major candidates is well below water when it comes to favorable views in general? Or when enthusiasm among voters, particularly Republicans, appears to be tepid at best?

Well, as Laurel & Hardy said . . . .

There are ways in which the volatility of the current political scene seeped into the release Wednesday of the latest round of Marquette Law School Poll results. But there are more ways it didn’t.

An extraordinary time in American politics has brought an extraordinary week in Wisconsin politics, with the state’s presidential primary on April 5 standing as the next major event on the political calendar. All five of the remaining major candidates for president have spent at least two days in the state this week, with several developments of national significance occurring on our home turf.

The passions of thousands attending events with Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, the political drama of the battle (including insults) between Trump and Ted Cruz, the search by Hillary Clinton for ways to build more fire behind her support in Wisconsin, a three-hour “town hall meeting” with Trump, Cruz, and John Kasich, telecast by CNN from Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater – this is just aa partial list of events in Wisconsin this week.

So stakes are high as Wisconsin returns to being a battleground in the presidential race. High stakes bring high tension and high levels of partisanship.

And then there was a release of the poll at Eckstein Hall, with Professor Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll, and Mike Gousha, distinguished fellow in law and public policy at the Law School, leading a tour of the new results. Calm. Level-headed. Insightful. Strictly non-partisan. Much the same as several dozen poll-release events since the Marquette Law School Poll started in 2012.

But you could see the drama of what is going on in Wisconsin in the poll results. Among the highlights:

Cruz’ sharp increase in support from the February round of polling, bringing him to a 10-point lead over Trump and framing the question of whether stop-Trump Republicans will score an important victory here .

Sanders’ continued strength on the Democratic side, leaving him with a lead of four percentage points over Clinton, compared to the one-point lead he had in February.

The high number of voters who say they are “very uncomfortable” with the idea of either of the two national frontrunners becoming president. For Trump, 55 percent overall (89 percent of Democratic voters, 23 percent of Republican voters) said they were “very comfortable” with the possibility of him in the White House. With Clinton, Democrats don’t have much problem (only eight percent were “very uncomfortable”), but 82 percent of Republicans have that “very uncomfortable” reaction to her.

Sanders amazing strength among voters who are 18 to 29. The poll found 83 percent of younger voters who are planning to take part in the Democratic primary support Sanders – a number so high it brought an audible reaction among those attending the session. On the other hand, Clinton is the choice of 63 percent of those over 60 and, as Franklin pointed out, older voters have a track record of turning out to vote in much higher percentages than younger voters.

Beyond the presidential races, the poll also suggested a tightening of the race for the United States Senate, which won’t be decided until November. In this round of results, Democrat Russ Feingold led Republican Ron Johnson by five points, 47 percent to 42 percent. In February, Feingold’s lead was 12 points.

And it pointed to a tight race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, with Justice Rebecca Bradley holding a five point advantage over Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg, although many likely voters say they are undecided. The poll also showed how much support for each of the candidates in the non-partisan court race aligns with partisanship in the presidential race. Among those who say they will vote in the Republican primary, 69 percent support Bradley and 11 percent support Kloppenburg. Among Democratic primary voters, 64 percent support Kloppenburg and 12 percent support Bradley.

The poll results and the session offered even light and facts about what people are thinking at a time of high heat and sometimes-little attention to facts.