But even among self-identified establishment Republicans, Trump leads with 25 percent to Carson’s 22 percent.
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Older voters represent a major voting bloc for the former secretary of State, who carries the over-45 vote by 52 percent to 35 percent.
In hypothetical match-ups against Republicans, the poll shows that Clinton would lose in New Hampshire against Sen.
However, she would defeat businessman Donald Trump and Sen.
The poll found modest support in that group-50 percent-for continuation of Obama’s program to halt the deportation of the so-called “Dreamers”-undocumented immigrants who came to the USA before age 16 and meet other requirements”. It represents the first time the Connecticut-based pollster did a preference poll of registered Republican voters in Colorado.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who trailed Cruz and Carson among Republican and GOP-leaning independent voters, also saw a rise in support in recent weeks, going from 9 to 11 percent, the poll found.
Just 22 percent of Republicans and those who lean that way say they’re best described as “mainstream” in the party, while a third pick “Christian conservative”.
While Trump led Carson by just two points in the first-in-the-nation primary state in a WBUR poll taken just before the fourth presidential debate, he has gone up while his rival has gone down since then. Cruz holds a 13-point advantage and Trump registered an 11-point edge.
Sixty percent of voters also disapprove of the way the state’s legislative Republican majority is doing its job.
The poll was conducted November 15-17 among 5,755 adults 18-plus and has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. Almost seven percent are undecided and 2.5 percent prefer someone else.
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The latest numbers show Rubio leading Clinton 52 percent to 36 percent, a 16-point margin. Lagging the field in this measure are Kasich at 29 percent and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky at 38 percent. The question’s margin of error – plus-or-minus 4.5 percent – essentially makes it a dead-heat for the second position.
