In a new Franklin & Marshall College poll released Thursday morning, Clinton leads Trump 47 to 40 percent among likely voters. But after nominating conventions the past weeks, a new poll bared that the two are in a virtual tie in the presidential race that includes Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian bet Gary Johnson.
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The poll also has a much higher share of undecideds than other polls do at this stage, with 13% say they don’t know who they would support.
She had a 10-point head-to-head advantage earlier this month (49-39 percent), in the wake of the Democratic convention and Trump’s clash with the parents of a Gold Star soldier.
This is a change election; Clinton has a almost 25-year track record which has culminated with an electorate that does not trust her or believe she is honest; and because of his own miscalculations and unprecedented media hostility, it is hard for at least some Trump supporters to admit to pollsters they support him.
Rasmussen said that a one-point lead is statistically insignificant due to the poll’s 3 percentage point margin of error, but said the results highlighted the closeness of the race.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s ratings of unpopularity have risen to levels nearly identical to those of Republican candidate Donald Trump. Trump attracts 15% of Democrats, while 12% of Republicans prefer Clinton. Two very recent polls show dramatic changes in Trump’s fortunes.
“Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric continues to drive voters away from him and the Republican Party and has created new opportunities for Democrats up and down the ticket”, he added. Johnson was favored by 9 percent, and Stein by 2 percent of registered voters.
In the tracking poll conducted by NBC News, Clinton is narrowly leading by 6 points, 48 to 42.
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A Suffolk University/USA Today poll of voters likely to cast ballots in the November presidential election, put Clinton 7 points above Trump nationwide. Trump, though, was viewed negatively by 80 percent of Hispanics, virtually unchanged from his 79 percent disapproval rating at the start of the month.
