In association with the University of MI and Georgetown University, Gallup conducted more than 30,000 interviews and asked USA adults what they could remember regarding the two major presidential candidates: Clinton and Donald Trump.
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In the days since Jimmy Fallon’s maddeningly softball interview with Donald Trump on The Tonight Show, pundits have wondered if late-night comedians should have Trump on their shows at all, and if they do, whether it’s their job to ask him tough questions. His announcement created a backlash, however, after he declined to apologize to Obama after spending years as the public face of those trying to undermine the president’s legitimacy.
A Gallup poll shows “email” is the word most commonly associated with Hillary Clinton.
The Elon University poll found Trump has a 44 percent advantage among likely voters in the Tar Heel State and 43 percent back Clinton. Only among young voters has support plummeted, and it’s plummeted by enough to put the election in genuine doubt.
North Carolina went Republican in every presidential election from 1980 (Ronald Reagan) to 2004 (George W. Bush), until Barack Obama carried it in 2008. “And by a similar 76-21 percent margin, voters, also including a large majority of Republicans, say that climate change is a significant threat to the planet rather than not real nor based on science”. Her campaign team is closely guarding details of her preparations, but multiple media reports have claimed she is studying Trump’s primary debates, with a particular aim toward finding ways of getting under his skin.
“It is like so much else he says: It is not grounded in fact, it is meant to make some kind of demagogic point”, Clinton said. “But we can’t act as though we’re shutting the doors to people in need without undermining who we are as Americans and the values we have stood for”.
Trump also got into a little pre-debate hazing of Clinton, writing on Twitter: “Hillary Clinton is taking the day off again, she needs the rest. I get that. And I want to do my best to answer those questions”, she told several hundred students gathered in an ornate, wood-paneled lecture hall.
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This election marks the first presidential campaign where millennials make up the single largest generation among USA adults, having surpassed baby boomers during the past four years. The group helped anchor Obama’s support, but Clinton has failed to attract them in the same number. The Siena results are in line with the average of all NY polls maintained by Real Clear Politics, which has the race at 51% to 34%.
