Still, over the course of seven days, the poll’s full sample size, Clinton has improved her standing by 0.6 percent, while Trump has dropped almost a full percentage point in the poll. Among them, most surprisingly, is Texas, as well as Georgia and Arizona.
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Those states would provide 244 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
With two other candidates, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, included in the polling, Clinton’s margin narrows somewhat, with even fewer states showing Trump or Clinton with a four-point or more lead.
More voters have a favorable view of Clinton (43%) than Trump (38%).
The near tie in the latest CNN/ORC results came in sharp contrast to Mr Clinton’s eight-point lead among registered voters in its early August poll following the Democratic Convention. However, that has now dwindled to just four points in the latest average of polls released by RealClearPolitics.
Johnson will appear as an independent candidate on Ohio’s ballot. The Washington Post survey shows him with a slight lead in OH and also Iowa and in a close race in Michigan, Wisconsin and also Pennsylvania.
The last Democratic presidential candidate to take the Lone Star state was Jimmy Carter in 1976, a fellow southerner.
And although Trump is on the losing side in this question, he fares better than nearly every Republican in the last 24 years. That could be hard with so many high-profile Republicans publicly spurning him and so many women Republicans also resisting his appeal.
The New York businessman, who has struggled at times to demonstrate a command of foreign policy, also seemed to acknowledge he does not now have a plan to address cyber security or the Islamic State group.
Clinton will have millions of dollars at her disposal this fall to air television advertising and power a sophisticated get-out-the vote operation in key states.
The gender gap in this election could be more stark than in past cycles, the survey suggests.
Democrats were fanning out across battleground states, dispatching Kaine and Vice President Joe Biden to Pittsburgh, former President Bill Clinton to Detroit and Cincinnati and one-time Clinton primary rival Bernie Sanders to New Hampshire. Most college grads back Clinton while those without degrees mostly support Trump, and that divide deepens among white voters.
In a four-way race with third-party candidates added to the mix, Trump was ahead 41 percent-37 percent. Yet according to this survey, Ms Clinton is beating him among those voters in 31 of the 50 states.
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Further, almost half of voters say they are less enthusiastic about voting in this election than they have been in previous years, while just 42% say they’re more excited about this year’s contest.
