Clinton is ahead of Trump in North Carolina 44% to 38%, a state which President Barack Obama won for Democrats in 2008 for the first time since 1976.
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The most recent polls have been all over the place with a Quinnipiac poll showing Trump leading in Florida by 3 points earlier this week. The margin of error is 3.3 percentage points.
The four states combine to give the victor 66 electoral votes in the November election.
Overall, 77 percent of Latino voters agreed that the Republican Party “doesn’t care too much about Latinos” and 41 percent find that the party is “sometimes hostile toward Latinos”.
She also has lost a narrow advantage in Iowa, where they are now in a dead heat at 40.1 percent apiece.
But the fact remains that such perceptions aren’t a constructive way to look at polling, and when the media only makes a fuss about surveys that show Trump doing well, it’s an imbalance that might even shape the public’s understanding of the race. Among Democrats, 61 percent think Clinton showed poor judgment but did not break the law, while 11 percent think she did nothing wrong at all. On making America great – Trump’s campaign slogan – 31 percent thought he would do a better job, 28 percent favored Clinton and 34 percent said neither.
Despite Clinton’s leads, she and Trump are both unpopular in these battlegrounds, although Trump is slightly more unpopular. In April, he led the state by 8 points, but Clinton has led the Tar Heel State outright in other polls.
Perhaps even more surprising is that Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson is running neck-and-neck with Republican Trump among multiple groups of voters ages 18-29, the poll found.
The Harvard IOP Poll echoes that sentiment, with just 21 percent of Clinton’s backers saying they’re very enthusiastic about supporting her, while 36 percent of Trump’s backers say the same.
A potential Trump presidency was seen to be scarier than that of Clinton; 33 percent said they would be afraid if Trump was elected and 25 percent said they would be afraid of Clinton.
Several of Trump’s controversial and off-the-cuff comments have inspired riffs on the silver screen, including a rant from Daily Show alum John Oliver on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight”, but the center’s director Robert Lichter said Clinton has borne the brunt of several jokes in recent weeks because of her email scandal.
“Some people were freaked out, they were looking down at the polls on Real Clear Politics and asking why it was so close”, said a Democratic senator to The Hill, speaking about a private meeting in the Capitol on Thursday.
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The WSJ/NBC/Marist poll was conducted from July 5 through 10, and surveyed 871 registered voters in Florida; 907 in North Carolina; 876 in Virginia; and 794 in Colorado.
