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A poll by Reuters/Ipsos released Friday showed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican rival Donald Trump narrowed, amid an “unclear” shift. Among young African-Americans, Hispanics and Asian-Americans, most believe the party does care about people like them. On Saturday ahead of his rally in New Hampshire, he posted a campaign ad on his Facebook page that refers to Clinton as “Robot Hillary” – and shows sparks flying out of her mouth. Clinton said. “Just maybe, when I’m actually running for a job, there is a real benefit to those on the other side with trying to stir up as much trouble as possible”. I think if you poll, and I think there were 862 people polled in this particular poll, if you poll downtown Atlanta, you skew your poll to Atlanta, then you get numbers like this.
“You want someone who can represent you and support your ideals”, Rochester said, saying neither candidate fits that bill for him.
Rochester, a former Sioux City council member, said he will vote in November, but he has not decided on an alternative candidate.
“In the nearly 50 years that I’ve been analyzing presidential elections, I’ve never seen a year when the past is not a very good predictor of what’s going to happen this year because you have a candidate who is different than any other candidate who has ever run for president, and you have two candidates who are so mistrusted that we don’t know if the voter turnout is going to be low or high, and so the best models that I’ve seen is that Hillary Clinton needs to hang on to all the states that Democrats normally win”, Schmidt said.
The second-worst: Hillary Clinton.
The survey was paid for by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago, using grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The data is illuminating.
In Florida, Clinton opened up a 6-point lead in a two-way race and 4-point in a four-way race, according to a Suffolk University Poll conducted Monday through Wednesday.
Trump’s latest barrage of attacks against Clinton – while not a departure from his brand of personal and aggressive attacks against his opponents – did mark an escalation in his attacks, just as Clinton and her allies are stepping up their attacks against Trump.
When subtracting the candidates’ strongly unfavorable from their strongly favorable ratings, using averages over March and April, Clinton scores negative 20 and Trump negative 40. The previous low for the same period was Mitt Romney at negative 8 in 2012. “We’re going to win, we’re going to start winning again”, he said.
The high unfavorable ratings can be attributed in part to political polarization, experts say.
Eager to change their minds, Trump unleashed a torrent of insults at Clinton throughout the day. The Democratic nominee retains an advantage, 41% to 38%, with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein included in the survey.
Franklin said voters’ unfavorable views of Clinton and Trump have created an opening for third-party candidates such as Johnson and Stein.
Evan Siegfried, author of “GOP GPS: How to Find the Millennials and Urban Voters the Republican Party Needs to Survive”, told Business Insider that he’s not surprised if Trump’s slew of controversies are sticking to Republicans, particularly those who have endorsed the presidential nominee.
The Cook Political Report, which last updated its projections on May 25, also projects a Clinton electoral win, finding at least 304 electoral votes – enough to win election – that at least “lean” Democratic.
Yes, there are still 94 days until the election, and anything can happen.
They may sit out the election and not vote.
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“Georgia still isn’t directly in Clinton’s crosshairs, and her campaign has yet to declare Georgia a battleground state”, the AJC noted.
