A new WBUR poll released on Wednesday showed Trump continuing to hold a commanding lead among likely Republican voters in New Hampshire, the key first-in-the-nation primary state. According to the poll, Ben Carson earns 22 percent of the Wisconsin Republican presidential primary vote, followed by Donald Trump and Marco Rubio at 19 percent each.
Advertisement
Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina earn 3% support. No other Republicans earns more than 1%.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton holds a 43-point lead over Bernie Sanders in the Democratic race while still trailing her Republican counterparts. The smaller sample of 379 registered Republicans and those who lean toward that party has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.0 percentage points. The results of the poll, which surveyed national voters and not UMass students, were unsettling but not surprising to students on campus. Just over a third said they believe the country should create a pathway to citizenship, while another 34 percent said they “don’t know”.
The GOP primary contest – marked by raucous debates and occasional nasty exchanges – has not helped numerous candidates in the minds of Florida voters. Following is Carson (15 percent), and Cruz (10 percent).
Voters did give Carson the edge on working effectively with Congress – 62 percent said he would be best at it, whereas 30 percent said Trump would. Bush placed fifth with just 8.9 percent, down more than two points from BEPI’s poll in September when he took 11.3 percent of the vote. Ted Cruz of Texas, who snagged 9% of support in the Bloomberg Politics survey.
The survey also found that Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy would be favored against either Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera or Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis in a general election match-up for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat.
The Fox News Poll was conducted from November 15th-17th by telephone and live interviewers from Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company Research.
Advertisement
Not helping Clinton is her favorability rating, the lowest of any top candidate in Colorado, with only 33 percent of respondents offering a favorable opinion of Clinton, compared to 61 percent who have an unfavorable view of her. The hypothetical matchups were split sampled, which means each question was only asked of half the sample and the results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 points.
