“Donald Trump is running better in Iowa than other Midwestern states and that shows in his lead in this poll”, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the poll. Clinton seems to be spending more time in prep mode and certainly has the experience advantage. “Now, the race has tightened considerably”.
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The AP-GfK Poll of 1,694 adults, including 1,476 registered voters, was conducted online September 15-19, using a sample drawn from GfK’s probability-based KnowledgePanel, which is created to be representative of the USA population. Even among supporters, more said they’d feel relief rather than excitement if their preferred candidate won.
In the poll, 37 percent of those surveyed were identified as Democrat, 32 percent as Republican and 31 percent as independent. “The Affordable Care Act, however, is hurting Clinton in four of the states and might be used as a wedge issue by Trump to improve his position in those states”. And for everything you need to know about the first presidential debate this Monday go to nbcnews.com/debates. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson pulled in 11 percent to Green Party Jill Stein’s 2.1 percent. She has 48 percent and the Republian 41 percent. “Iowa, with a voting bloc that is overwhelmingly white, lacks the kind of large minority population that has fueled Hillary Clinton’s lead in some of the large industrial states”. From the Republican side, McInturff agreed with Yang, saying that for Trump to win, something unexpected should happen. Holding American and Israeli national flags, he said white women and African-Americans should vote for Trump to topple the established order.
In the end it will be up to Mr Holt to decide how vigorously he holds the candidates to a standard of truth. “Not for Donald Trump the man, but to knock out the system…to get their rights”.
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Struggling to pull ahead in a close race, Clinton has embarked on an effort to highlight her record and her positive proposals, rather than just attacking Trump She spoke about faith in Kansas City recently and stressed her plans for younger voters in Philadelphia this week. In general, voters are about equally split on which candidate would better handle the economy, 39 percent for Trump to 38 percent for Clinton. Trump maintained higher levels of backing from the demographic, garnering 46 percent support to Clinton’s 44 percent, but the difference is much narrower than in earlier polls.
