While the gender gap showed signs of expanding earlier this year, Mrs Clinton’s 10-point lead among women is similar to Mr Obama’s 11-point margin four years ago, and Mr Trump’s six-point edge with men almost matches Mr Romney’s seven-point edge. That means that while the poll showed a lead for Clinton in MI – which hasn’t turned for a Republican nominee for president since George H.W. Bush in 1988 – it could be in play. But three new polls released Thursday now show the two candidates in a virtual dead heat.
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Trump’s position with independents closely resembles Mitt Romney’s five-point winning margin among the group in the 2012 network exit poll, which was not sufficient to overcome Democrats’ overall party identification advantage over Republicans. “To all Americans, I say it is time for new leadership”.
Clinton’s weekend schedule underscored the Democrats’ fresh anxiety in the final stretch.
Swing states – states that often switch between Democrat and Republican in different elections – are also important. However, these inquests were swung into low gear weeks ago because the Federal Bureau of Investigation wanted to avoid any effect on the election.
There are other reasons for the Clinton campaign to worry.
An overwhelming majority of voters are disgusted by the state of American politics, and many harbour doubts that either major-party nominee can unite the country after a historically ugly presidential campaign, according to the final pre-election New York Times/CBS News Poll. And in battleground states like Florida and Ohio, Trump’s chances have improved.
He said, “No, you don’t need that kind of stuff, really and truly”. “There are times where history is. moveable. This is one of those moments”.
This may be due to the fact both are said to be two of the most unpopular people to be in the race for the White House, unpopular both within their own parties and among the public at large.
More importantly, there are 17 states in the USA that can be viewed as competitive based on the fact that six percentage points or less separate Clinton and Trump.
Global equity prices drifted lower on Thursday as worries about the election weighed on investor sentiment.
– One outlier poll is giving Trump his lead in North Carolina, too. The election could come down to one state with four electoral college votes that flips from Clinton to Donald Trump and, boom: A 269-269 electoral college tie, and a vote by the House of Representatives to decide on the next president – who, given the composition of the House, would nearly certainly be Donald Trump.
Clinton’s stop in red-tilting Arizona, where she drew an estimated 15,000 supporters to a field in Tempe, was an effort to project strength. Trump’s new momentum could be their inspiration.
Nonwhites and college graduates are more concerned than their counterparts about the economy, with whites more apt to cite corruption and terrorism/national security and those without a college degree more likely to pick multiple issues. Trump, meanwhile, is arguing that Clinton flouts the law and says her administration would be consumed with constant investigations and distracting scandals.
Trump told his largely white audience in Atkinson that “we have to rebuild our country”. “We need someone who is ready to go to work”.
On Thursday, she campaigned with former primary opponent Sen. They both think they can win and both know they could lose. “We must treat each other with respect and kindness even when we disagree”, she said in Berwyn, Penn.
Last month, national polling averages showed Clinton pulling further ahead of Trump as he sank under accusations by a number of women that he had made unwanted sexual advances, but the latest poll showed enthusiasm for the bombastic billionaire was rebounding.
Also, in that poll, 57 percent of people had said that they didn’t share Clinton’s values and 62 percent had said that same about Trump.
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Not all Clinton supporters were anxious about her recent slip in the polls. “With age comes a certain perspective”, said Jim Friederichs, 64, a gardener in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. So I don’t see them as exact analogues.
