However, high-income Americans consider Trump to be preferred candidate for their personal investments, choosing the businessman over Clinton by nine points, 45-36.
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She has 41%, followed by Trump at 38%, Libertarian Gary Johnson at 11% and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 2%.
The 6-point lead, however, reflects a bit of a bounce back for Clinton, after much of the media focus last week was on her comments calling “half” of Trump supporters “deplorables”, as well as the candidate’s pneumonia diagnosis.
Yesterday, Clinton said she has long held the view that the the USA should apply “tough vetting” toward immigrants.
-An NBC/WSJ/Telemundo poll of Latinos shows Hillary Clinton leading by a huge margin.
The survey was taken September 16-19, after those controversies generated news headlines and before the recent bombing incidents in and near NY.
To be clear, no one is suggesting it’s necessary for alleged lifelong abstainer Clinton to suddenly take up cannabis consumption, but issuing a full-throated endorsement for the drug’s legalization would likely convince a not-insubstantial number of young people now supporting ardently anti-prohibition Johnson or Stein to seriously consider checking the Democratic box on November 8.
“The national numbers seem to have closed substantially since then”, he said. Just over one-fifth (22%) like her “issue/policy positions”.
What is Clinton’s biggest strength as she head into her first debate against Trump? Trump leads by 3 points in Nevada, 43 percent to 40 percent, 5 points in North Carolina, 45 percent to 40 percent, and 5 points in OH, 42 percent to 37 percent, the poll finds.
Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, told Xinhua that for Clinton, who has a pretty hawkish record, the challenge will be to highlight this record, combined with her experience, without alienating younger liberals who want a different approach to ending this threat.
“I think they’re both above average debaters, better debaters than they are candidates in general”, said Aaron Kall, director of debate at the University of MI.
Registered voters also saw a small expansion of Feingold’s lead at 46-40, compared to a four-point lead in August. In Virginia, voters do not register by party. That’s no mean feat as clouds of distrust loom over both campaigns. “Nobody should be fooled”, Clinton says in the video.
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However, those advantages were eclipsed by Clinton’s leads among women and college-educated voters-both of which are a majority voting bloc in the state, both in the poll sample Wednesday and in past elections.
