A CBS poll released on Sunday showed that Clinton received a four percentage boost in her rating following the Democratic convention, compared to the two percent bounce Trump received from the Republican one.
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When asked about voting for Trump in the days following the Republican convention, 36 percent of voters said they were more likely to support him, while 51 percent said they were less likely – that’s a net negative of 15 percent, the worst post-convention showing Gallup has ever recorded.
About a week ago at this time, polls showed Donald Trump in a much stronger position in the presidential race, benefiting from a modest post-convention bump in the polls.
Just hours after she was chosen to be the first woman to be the presidential nominee of a major political party, Democrat Hillary Clinton took a bus tour through Pennsylvania and Ohio. After the Democratic Convention, there was a 5% increase in the number of voters who hold a positive view of Clinton.
An online survey conducted by RABA Research on Friday found that Clinton has surged ahead of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, securing support from 46 percent of respondents to Trump’s 31 percent.
Clinton also overtook Trump in the RealClearPolitics national polling average, with 45% support compared with Trump’s 43%. Bernie Sanders, are likely to line up behind Clinton with total rejection of Trump. The Green Party’s Jill Stein faces an uphill battle to get on the ballot in all 50 states, while Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson will be on the ballot in every state. Clinton continues to get the support of more than eight in 10 Democrats and has seen an uptick in support among liberals.
That last point, about 1992, comes with its own asterisk: Ross Perot dropped out of the race during the Democratic convention that year, which exaggerating then-Gov.
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RABA results for Clinton also demonstrated her best appeal to voters so far. Clinton’s speech ranks well behind other recent Democratic acceptance speeches, 64% called Obama’s ’08 address excellent or good, and 52% each called John Kerry’s 2004 speech and Al Gore’s 2000 speech excellent or good. Broken down by party, you see that Clinton improved dramatically with independent voters, gaining after both conventions. The 3-point difference is just outside the poll’s 2-point margin of error, and 17 percent of voters remain undecided.
