A Quinniapiac University Swing State poll found that Former Secretary State Hillary Clinton and businessman Donald Trump are ahead of other party candidates in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, but they have lost support and have low scores in the rest of the United States.
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And now the bad news for Clinton and Trump – they’re not the strongest candidates in the general election.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., does worse against the Republicans. She leads Fiorina and Carson in Florida and trails native sons Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio by just a point.
Voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania were asked about their picks for president. “And because he says a few things that overrides the ideological differences”, Clinton said. Biden and Sanders would be tied at 19 percent in Florida. “Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and potential opponent, Vice President Joseph Biden, but the vice president is gaining, while she is losing support”, Brown said. He can’t beat any of the major Democratic candidates in the state in one-on-one general election matchups. Biden does best when paired against Trump, beating him 52 percent to 38 percent.
Against Carson, Biden is in a dead heat in Florida (45-42), while Carson has the edge in Ohio (46-42) and Pennsylvania (47-42).
Trump and Clinton lead in all three states’ party primaries.
The poll, conducted from September 25 to Monday, showed Trump with support from 28 percent of registered Republicans, followed by Carson at 16 percent, Rubio at 14 percent and Bush at 12 percent.
This weekend, on Saturday Night Live, Hillary Clinton did her best impression yet of a real person, as a likeable bartender who even managed to get in a shot at Donald Trump.
But Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, and Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive, each shot up 10 percentage points from May.
Among Democrats, Clinton’s favorable/unfavorable rating is 68/23.
For the first time, billionaire Donald Trump leads the GOP field in Ohio, with 23 percent of Republicans telling Quinnipiac University pollsters they’d vote for him.
“The standings in the two previous Field Polls – it’s just totally different than what we’re seeing now”, poll director Mark DiCamillo said.
Trump gets a negative 36 – 56 percent favorability and voters say 54 – 37 percent he is not honest and trustworthy. But Bush, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen.
In Ohio, it includes 1,180 registered voters, 433 Republicans and 396 Democrats. In Pennsylvania, the error margin was 3 points for the 1,049 voters surveyed.
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The poll’s relatively small sample and wide margin of error, at plus or minus 7 percentage points, makes differentiating between the front-runners hard.
