Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads her Republican opponent Donald Trump by six points, according to the latest poll from NBC News/Wall Street Journal. The FiveThirtyEight forecast essentially has Florida as a coin flip, giving Trump a 55.2 percent chance of winning, with Clinton trailing at 44.8 percent. A recent CBS battleground poll that tracked registered voters across 13 swing states – North Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, Virginia and Wisconsin – found a tie between Clinton and Trump. The Real Clear Politics average of polls, which now includes these new Fox News polls, has Trump ahead by a narrow margin (1.8%-2.0%) in all three states.
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The race between Clinton and Trump represents a battle between two of the least liked major party candidates in history, and Pew’s findings are hardly the first to show that voters are largely disappointed with both.
Trump leads Clinton on how to handle the economy, carrying 46 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 41 percent.
The poll also shows the majority of North Carolina voters who are undecided would prefer four more years of President Obama over the “sharp pivot to Trump’s vision for the country”.
Trump leads Clinton, 43 percent to 40 percent, in Nevada, which President Obama carried in the prior two elections. Trump follows at 37 percent, while Johnson and Stein trail at 9 percent and 3 percent, respectively. Another 22 percent said they viewed her somewhat favorably. But Clinton leads when it comes to being in charge of nuclear weapons (51% to 25%), being a good commander in chief (48% to 33%) and on immigration (50% to 39%).
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The latest poll was conducted by phone September 15 through Sunday, sampling 802 registered Wisconsin voters with a margin of error of 4.8 percent. Among registered voters there is a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent, and with likely voters there is a margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percent.
