WASHINGTON (AP) – From Medicare to medical costs, more voters trust Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to do a better job on health care issues facing the nation, according to a poll out Thursday.
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Clinton’s ratings among women dipped to 52 percent unfavorable and 45 percent favorable in the most recent poll from 54 percent positive and 43 percent negative in the earlier survey.
Trump, of course, has always been the more unpopular of the two presidential nominees, and he remains so; 35 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of him, compared to 63 percent unfavorable.
Donald Trump is gaining ground on Hillary Clinton in a new statewide Franklin & Marshall College poll. According to an analysis by NBC News and Advertising Analytics, Clinton has spent $75 million on ads in the general election, compared to Trump’s $7.7 million. The poll also found Trump has an advantage among white men, but Clinton has a bigger lead among white women. She is favored by 48 percent of likely voters to Trump’s 41 percent. His expressions of antipathy toward Mexicans likely also hurt him among Catholics; Trump earns 44 percent approval to Clinton’s 34 percent among non-Hispanic Catholics, but scores 12 percent to Clinton’s 67 percent among Hispanic Catholics.
Hillary Clinton is making a play for Republican Arizona. The former high was the 53 percent recorded by President George H.W. Bush in July 1992.
But renewed questions over her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state, and others surrounding her family’s Clinton Foundation and its donors, appear to have worsened already negative opinions of her.
Interviews for the MetroNews West Virginia Poll were conducted between August 9-28 with a sample of 386 and 435 registered, likely voters in the Mountain State. About 20 percent of likely voters say they don’t like either major-party nominee. In a four-way test that includes Johnson and Stein, Clinton leads Trump 42.2/37.8. Trump was at 63 percent negative and 34 percent positive.
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The money will help bankroll Clinton’s large advertising campaign in battleground states that will help determine the outcome of the 2016 election, along with the large get-out-the-vote operation that her team has been assembling across the country.
