Now, according to CBS News, Clinton leads Trump 46 to 39 – a seven-point swing, though still leaving a lot of people undecided.
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A new poll Monday shows good news for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Clinton now has the support of more than 80 percent of Democrats – 73 percent of Bernie Sanders voters said they plan to vote for Clinton in November.
But now, 91 percent of Sanders backers say they will vote for Clinton and 6 for Trump, who has predicted that the Vermont lawmaker’s supporters will come to his side. Voters who preferred “other” candidates represented 4.9 percent, a figure that had declined significantly in the past two weeks.
According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Clinton has a 2.2-point lead over Trump in a head-to-head match-up.
Clinton got a four-point bounce after her party’s convention, compared to a two-point bump for Trump after his convention. On the housing side, a May Zillow survey found that economists expect a Trump presidency would harm USA housing markets and the country’s overall economy, while Clinton would have a more positive effect on housing. The race was tied last week after the Republican convention.
We’ll also note that Clinton’s net favorability rating among independents when from a terrible minus-43 to a less-horrible (though-still-bad) minus-35. While Trump also improved his numbers on that metric, his voters are more evenly divided, with 47 percent saying they’re backing him to show support and 50 percent saying it’s more to oppose Clinton.
Gallup used live telephone interviews on July 23-24 and July 29-30 to sample approximately 1,000 adults each, reaching both landlines and cell phones.
In short: Trump may have been better off skipping the convention altogether. The margin of sampling error is =/- 3 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.
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It was the latest bitter rhetorical volley between the defiant Republican candidate and the family of a fallen soldier since the two parties concluded their major conventions last week and the nation looked ahead to a close election this November. His lead appeared to be approximately 2.5 points.
