Independent voters go 43 percent for Trump and 41 percent for Clinton. She led Trump by just 2 points in the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, while Trump led her by a point in the latest CNN poll.
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A survey from Quinnipiac University found Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by five points in Pennsylvania and four points in North Carolina, differing from an earlier poll released from the Tar Heel State showing Trump with a slim lead. The difference between the two candidates in the new polls is near or within the surveys’ margins of error.
Among independents, Trump has more sway with 49% and Clinton getting just 29% and the rest backing Johnson or Stein. Some traditional Republican states give her a clear edge heading into the final 62 days of the campaign.
If those states are taken out of the equation, Clinton still holds a substantial lead over Trump, but it drops to 258 vs. 164 electoral votes. “Pennsylvania, so crucial and looking like the most solid swing state for Hillary Clinton, is back in play”.
Converging on OH within miles apart of each other, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton made competing Labor Day pitches in Cleveland on Monday, setting the stage for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign.
And they found a big weakness in Trump’s campaign – a low number of college-educated, white voters, especially women.
Immigration: 49 percent favor Clinton’s policy to 47 percent for Trump.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton walks to her plane at Quad Cities International Airport, Moline, Illinois, September 5, 2016.
It leaves 10 states with a combined 168 electoral votes where neither major-party candidate has a lead of at least four points.
However, another poll out Tuesday, showed Clinton remaining in the lead over Trump by a comfortable margin.
Fifty-eight percent of those polled support allowing undocumented immigrants with no criminal history to remain in the USA legally; 33 percent oppose the idea.
The polls out Thursday were conducted August 29-Sept. 7.
More than half of voters – 53 percent – view Clinton as more capable of handling the public scrutiny that comes with serving as commander-in-chief, compared to 43 percent who said the same of Trump.
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The changes are within the surveys’ margins of error, but the polls forecast a more competitive contest than they did a month ago, following the Democratic National Convention.
