48 percent reported they would strongly not consider voting for Clinton, with 49 percent saying the same of Trump, 44 percent of Gary Johnson, and 47 percent of Jill Stein.
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Voters younger than 45 give Clinton an edge (54% to 29% for Trump), while non-whites favour Clinton by nearly four-to-one, poll results showed.
The Quinnipiac poll of 775 likely voters in the Buckeye State showed Trump topping Clinton by one point in a head-to-head matchup.
Clinton leads by four points or more in 20 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Washington Post-SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday. Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, prepared to leave Cleveland as Clinton and Tim Kaine arrived.
Some 59% said they think Clinton will be the next president, and just 34% expect Trump to emerge victorious. Although the Democratic candidate enjoyed a stellar August in the polls, Clinton’s edge is starting to fade as Election Day draws nearer.
Women prefer Clinton 53% to 38%, while men favour Trump 54% to 32%, it said.
“The effect of the Republican and Democratic conventions on the presidential race has run its course”, Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the poll, said in a released statement. And she implied Moscow was trying to help get the 70-year-old Trump elected. Trump has also cut into Hillary Clinton’s once double-digit leads in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Trump leads by more than four points in 20 states, but these add up to only 126 electoral college votes.
Yet a broad majority, 78 percent, say they would favor a bill to allow those immigrants working in the USA illegally, who meet certain criteria, to stay and eventually apply for citizenship.
In Pennsylvania, a state that Trump had targeted but has not supported a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, Clinton’s advantage was halved.
The new Franklin Pierce/Herald poll was conducted August 31-Sept.
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The race has been narrowing in recent weeks, with Clinton seeing her large leads over Trump erased in some polls. The survey includes results among 886 registered voters and 786 likely voters. In the Keystone State and in North Carolina, Clinton has a narrow lead, while results from Florida and OH fall within the poll’s margin of error. Johnson gets 8 percent and Stein 2 percent in a poll with a 3.6 percent margin of error.
