According to poll results released Wednesday, Clinton is up just 5 percentage points over Trump, 42 to 37 percent, among Wisconsin registered voters.
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The New York City real estate mogul’s favorability hit an all-time-high in the national polls at 42 percent, but were short two points of the 45 percent who said that they would vote for Clinton.
Republican nominee Donald Trump now has offices open in Downtown Orlando and in Winter Park, with a third possible location standing up in Apopka.
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The poll also found that President Barack Obama remains unpopular among West Virginia voters, with 60 percent of respondents disapproving of his job performance. Fifteen percent of Democrats said they planned on voting for Trump; 12 percent of Republicans said they were backing Clinton. Only 20 percent of those likely voters say that the best choice of the party was Trump.
Blacks continue to strongly support Clinton, while Trump leads by 10 among whites.
This is a change election; Clinton has a almost 25-year track record which has culminated with an electorate that does not trust her or believe she is honest; and because of his own miscalculations and unprecedented media hostility, it is hard for at least some Trump supporters to admit to pollsters they support him.
#1. Using a combination of national telephone calls and an online survey, Rasmussen Reports tells us that Clinton’s 4 point advantage from last week has disappeared.
Whether IBD’s poll proves to be an outlier or an indication that the race is tightening is unclear. These are signs that Clinton is going on the offense, winding down spending in states she has in her grasp while dumping money into three states, any one of which in her column would likely block Trump’s path to the White House. “It’s still a pretty big hurdle”.
Clinton is outspending Trump in every state by wide margins. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson received 7 percent; Green Party nominee Jill Stein got 3 percent.
A Marquette poll in early August showed Clinton with a 15-point lead over Trump in a head-to-head matchup, and a 13-point lead in a four-way race.
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“He’ll certainly be at a disadvantage as far as outside money coming in compared to other Republican presidential candidates in recent cycles”, said Jeremy Johnson, associate professor of political science at Carroll College in Helena.
