Voters also weighed in on the controversy surrounding Trump after his comments on the Muslim family of a fallen USA soldier.
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Clinton maintains her 8-point lead in the new poll when third-party candidates are factored in. Only once since 1976 – the election of Jimmy Carter that year – has the margin at which the winning party voted for its candidate been more than a point less than the margin at which the losing party supported its candidate (according to exit polls). Trump also suffers among Hispanic voters, garnering just 26 percent of their vote, according to an Economist/YouGov poll released earlier this week. Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, received 10 percent support.
Asked which candidate would be better at dealing with economy, voters still give the advantage to Trump, with 46 percent selecting the Republican as the best candidate for economic matters and 42 percent picking Clinton.
As Donald Trump insulted the families of war vets, Clinton and Kaine supported them.
Clinton leads Trump 49% to 38% among likely Pennsylvania voters, according to the Franklin and Marshall College poll.
The poll showed Clinton with a 47 percent to 32 percent lead over Donald Trump among likely New Hampshire voters.
A Fox News poll released Wednesday shows Clinton with a 10-point lead over Trump, 49-39 percent. His 50 percent positive rating in the NBC/Journal poll was his highest since December 2012. And the newspaper reports that “a majority of Trump backers said they see their decision as a vote against Clinton” as opposed to a vote for Trump. And even with white voters who supported Republican White House aspirants during the past elections, Trump was down here too. Slightly more Republican voters (6%) would be willing to vote for Clinton than Democrat voters (3%) for Trump.
While Trump is viewed more positively among independents than Clinton, his net favorable is still -16.
The two candidates are running almost even among men, at 43 percent for Clinton and 42 percent for Trump.
WBUR noted Clinton’s fifteen-point lead over Trump lead swells to seventeen points when Johnson and Stein are omitted from the poll.
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Here are five takeaways from the surveys that address whether Clinton can hold her post-convention bounce and the overall state of U.S.
