The survey’s results aren’t that different from the 10-point advantage Clinton had over Trump in a Fox poll taken earlier in August, but they do suggest a slight shift toward the Republican nominee with convention season behind us and Trump making a concerted effort to at least pretend to be an adult until November 8.
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Seventy-four percent of those surveyed agreed that “will say anything to get elected” described Clinton. In early August, the poll showed that 43% of Wisconsin voters viewed the Democratic nominee favorably, while 53% held unfavorable views of her.
“Typically, partisans become more positive toward their candidate in the last two months of the campaign; they rationalize their vote”, says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts the Fox News Poll along with Democratic pollster Chris Anderson.
With just 68 days to go before the elections, Mrs Clinton is five points ahead overall compared to Mr Trump, with 42 per cent support against 37 per cent, according to a Real Clear Politics poll average.
A President Donald Trump would undermine the U.S.’s leadership as an “exceptional” nation, Hillary Clinton told veterans Wednesday, speaking as Trump planned to test his diplomatic prowess in a visit with Mexico’s president.
Fifty-six percent of those surveyed said they thought Trump would do a bad job “looking out for the little guy”, versus Clinton’s 49 percent.
HuffPost Pollster, which aggregates publicly available polling data, gives Clinton an average 41 percent favorable rating and a almost 55 percent unfavorable rating. That gives her a net negative of -8 points. In 2012, Gallup found that 36 percent of voters indentified as Republican, 35 percent as Democratic, and 29 percent as independent. Sixty-eight percent of those asked said that phrase described Trump. James Clad, former deputy assistant secretary of defense under President George W. Bush, will announce his support for Clinton, following a slew of other GOP endorsements from the national security world. The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently closed the investigation related to Clinton’s use of a private server.
Many at the time felt that the statement insinuated that Obama’s main base of support was primarily only from black voters, and not from what Clinton called a “broader base to build a winning coalition on”. Thirty-eight percent of registered voters have a favorable impression of Clinton, while 59 percent do not.
Marquette says the poll has a plus/minus 4.5 percent margin of error for the “full sample”.
“We’ve never seen two candidates who are this unpopular”.
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The poll was conducted by phone August 25 through Sunday, sampling 803 registered Wisconsin voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points for registered voters, 5 percent for likely.
