The latest ABC News/ Washington Post national poll shows that Trump beats Clinton among white voters, yet, Clinton boasts strong support among nonwhites, a growing share of the USA population. Clinton has a 43 percent unfavorability rating, compared to Trump’s 56 percent rating. The poll including the third-party candidates was conducted among 1,131 voters during the same period.
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At this point in 2012, President Barack Obama was ahead of Republican nominee Mitt Romney by almost the same margin, favoured by 46 per cent of likely voters to Romney’s 41 per cent, with about 13 per cent picking neither candidate. In that scenario, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson earned 11 percent, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein bagged 4 percent.
Trump has a vast 41-point lead, 68-27 percent, among white men without a college degree identified as likely voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, produced for ABC byLanger Research Associates.
The Public Policy Polling survey shows that Donald Trump is struggling to gain young voters, as Hillary Clinton is winning in the state among those under the age of 65 by a margin of four percentage points. Democrats gained only 88,000 during the same period, according to Florida’s Division of Elections.
Despite a almost dead-even national election in 1960, non-whites voted by a near 2-to-1 margin for John F. Kennedy over Richard Nixon. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson earned 94 percent of the African-American vote.
In January and February, many who were registered with minor parties, like the Reform Party, or claimed “no party affiliation” shifted to Republican so they could vote in the GOP presidential primary.
The team will oversee planning for a potential Clinton administration should the Democratic nominee win in November.
And Trump is faring worse among the state’s white voters than Mitt Romney, who carried the group by 24 points in his 2012 race against Barack Obama.
However, 42 percent of voters stated Clinton had the “personality and temperament to serve” as president.
For instance, Georgia – a state that hasn’t voted for voted for a Democrat since 1992 and won by Romney by 9 percent – is a statistical dead heat. For example, the firm pointed out that Trump’s advantage is “based entirely” on a wide lead over Clinton among seniors, 63 percent to 33 percent.
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African-Americans now make up 31 percent of the overall population of Georgia.
