The UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll released Friday shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 2.3 percentage points.
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Last week’s version of the same poll showed Clinton ahead by 4 points – 42 percent to 38 percent.
Clinton (48 percent) led Trump (41 percent), with nine per cent of respondents undecided in the two-way ballot test, a media release said.
National polls have tightened since the end of two major parties’ national convention in late July, but Clinton maintains leads in nearly all battleground states. In the short term, the goal is to take advantage of Donald Trump’s weakness in so-called expansion states by boosting Clinton and forcing Republicans to spend precious resources defending them…. Interestingly, voters age 65 and older were much more closely divided, with 47 percent saying they trusted Clinton and 44 percent trusting Trump.
On the state level, a poll conducted by Emerson College showed that Trump and Clinton are tied in OH at 42 percent.
Republicans don’t want to be blamed for prematurely giving up on presidential nominee Donald Trump for fear of alienating his supporters.
Republican consultant Josh Holmes, former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said asking voters to use a GOP Congress to restrain Clinton is a smart, essential tactic. Ronald Reagan notched 14 percent of the black vote in 1980, then slipped to 9 percent in 1984. The previous Fox News Poll showed Clinton with a 10-point lead. Trump also has turned off potential donors with his comments on the campaign trail, and some Republicans are concerned he’s not supportive enough of the party’s platform.
Donald Trump’s poll numbers slid steadily in key battleground states, their Democratic counterparts outraised them by almost 3-1 in July, and talk about the Senate GOP majority slipping away triggered fresh worries that the large House majority could also be in jeopardy.
Johnson draws support from 8% of Republicans, 3% of Democrats, and 12% of unaffiliated voters.
Trump’s one-point lead is an indication of how close the race is, according to the survey of 1,000 Likely Voters which was conducted August 29-30.
In Detroit, Republican candidate Mitt Romney won barely more than 6,000 votes out of more than 288,000 cast in 2012.
The poll is based on interviews with 803 registered Wisconsin voters by landline or cell phone, conducted from August 25 to 28.
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Clinton has played a prominent role on health care issues for more than 20 years, since she led the failed effort to pass a bill providing health care for all in her husband’s first presidential term. Sixty-four percent of voters – and 71 percent of female voters – said they trusted Clinton to do a better job.
