Clinton holds an average lead of 42 percent to 37 percent over Trump, five nationwide polls show.
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Also, a survey by North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling, commissioned by the National Employment Law Project Action Fund on the role of the minimum wage in the election, shows that Clinton leads 48-43 percent.
On the future of Medicare, 53 percent of voters said they trusted Clinton, compared to 38 percent trusting Trump. Her haul in August is more than 50 percent higher than both the total that Clinton raised in July and that President Obama, himself a prodigious fundraiser, collected during the same period four years ago.
“Clinton is fuelled by strong support from the East and West Coast regions and by women across the nation”, said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Centre in Boston. Trump got 32.8 percent while Clinton had 44.8 percent.
Democrats and Republicans aren’t the only ones reaching out to Colorado voters – the Libertarian and Green parties are hoping to target disaffected voters who do not care for either Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
According to Politico, consultants to Hillary Clinton’s campaign have identified that the candidate now has so many paths to the White House that they’re now not only focusing on winning the swing states needed for an election victory, but also the possibility of a complete landslide in November. Supporters of Trump really dislike the feds, while voters who support Clinton think they’re great. The margin is even tighter, 45 to 42 percent, among likely voters, and that appears to be with in the poll’s margin of error – plus or minus 5 points for the likely voters.
The CNN average is based on five nationwide telephone polls conducted between August 9 and August 30. However, his fundraising in July nearly matched hers, largely because of a surge of small-dollar contributions – suggesting Trump could also post a large number for August, as well.
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This number is significantly higher than the number of people who are excited about their own candidate winning. Only one of the polls included in the average, the Fox News Poll, was sponsored by a group whose polls will be included in the calculations the Commission on Presidential Debates will complete to determine eligibility for the debates. Clinton has 73 percent of the Democratic vote, down from 79 percent in the previous survey. And about 40 percent of Donald Trump supporters said they were mostly voting against Clinton, not for Trump.
