Voters see Clinton as better able to handle the public scrutiny that comes with being president, with 52% of registered voters saying she’d be better on that point as opposed to the 43% who think Trump would.
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Despite barely winning Massachusetts’ Democratic presidential primary over rival Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton holds a double-digit lead over Republican nominee Donald Trump in the state, according to a new survey. In Florida, 761 likely voters were surveyed.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein was supported by 4 percent of Ohioans questioned. Trump has made five stops in the state, and he outlined his immigration platform in his most recent speech in Phoenix. Candidates like Donald Trump are the ones who need superior data and get out the vote operations to win on Election Day, but Trump has turned his nose up at both.
“To understand the racial divide in the electorate, consider the sharp contrast between white men and non-white voters in Florida”, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Those numbers are also basically the same as Quinnipiac’s August poll, though Johnson has moved up a point and Stein is down one.
In addition to leading Trump in MA, the former secretary of state almost doubled her GOP rival in expected electoral votes, winning 244 of the 270 needed to clinch the White House, compared to Trump’s his 126, according to the survey released Tuesday.
The margins of error for 761 likely voters in Florida and 751 in North Carolina were 3.6 percentage points; and for 775 likely voters in OH and 778 in Pennsylvania had margins of error of 3.5 percentage points. Clinton leads by a 38-point margin among Hispanic voters and by 68 points among African Americans.
Most recently, Clinton’s convention propelled her to an eight-point lead among registered voters in an early-August CNN/ORC Poll.
The Republican nominee had 44% support with likely voters, while Clinton had 41%.
However, Trump’s support among independent voters fell to 43 percent, compared to 50 percent in last month’s Quinnipiac poll.
Among voters overall, Trump does slightly better than the former Secretary of State on the handling of veterans’ issues.
Including the CNN and NBC News polls (Washington Post was state-by-state, not a national total), the Real Clear Politics polling average now shows Hillary Clinton up by 3.3 points.
The CNN/ORC Poll was conducted by telephone between September 1 and 4 among a random national sample of 1,001 adults.
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778 Pennsylvania likely voters with a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.
