The poll of 404 likely voters was conducted August 27-30 with a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.
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Trump started to chip away at Clinton’s big lead in Pennsylvania, cutting her advantage from 11 points after the Democratic National Convention to 7 points in a Franklin and Marshall College poll published Thursday.
Female voters in the August 4 poll supported Ms. Clinton 58 percent to 27 percent.
“I attribute it to the fact we are dissatisfied with the other candidates and the general public starting to get dissatisfied with the way the country is going”, said Dan Hasse, a voter offering his thoughts on the poll. An additional 7 percent of poll respondents were for Libertarian Gary Johnson, and 2 percent favored Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
Despite Trump’s recent outreach to voters of color, Clinton holds commanding leads with African Americans and Hispanics, Fox finds.
The latest Pennsylvania poll is a reflection of what’s happening nationally: Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump is shrinking.
In a nationwide USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, a third of Clinton’s supporters, 32%, say they are “very likely” to split their votes, and another 20% say they are “somewhat” likely.
About equal proportions of registered Democrats support Clinton (75 percent) compared to registered Republicans who support Trump (73 percent). Another 9 percent are undecided. Neither of those is getting much attention in a campaign that has been dominated by questions of character and temperament.
Clinton’s favorable rating was 41 percent, compared with 35 percent for Trump.
“Hillary Clinton is war”. Oregon’s Republican leaders have expressed tepid support of Trump or none at all.
Clinton and Trump will surely try to project positive images of themselves, experts say, “but for both of them, [the negatives] are so deeply baked in, it’s hard to see how” they can substantially reverse their unfavorable ratings, says Republican pollster Ed Goeas.
Offering insight into her foreign policy, Clinton said that “we can’t cozy up to dictators; we have to stand up to them”.
Rasmussen said that a one-point lead is statistically insignificant due to the poll’s 3 percentage point margin of error, but said the results highlighted the closeness of the race.
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The poll is based on interviews with 803 registered Wisconsin voters by landline or cell phone, conducted from August 25 to 28.
