An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday showed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had almost the same amount of support among registered voters in a hypothetical election between the two.
Clinton had 46 percent of support from registered voters and Trump had 43 percent of support, according to the poll.
The poll was produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates, according to the poll.
The survey was conducted from Sept 7-10 in phone interviews among a random national sample of 1,003 adults, including 821 registered voters.
The margin of error was 3.5 points for the full sample and 4.0 for registered voters.
When your hypothetical matchup has you almost losing to Trump, that’s bad news…or maybe it isn’t. Who knows this far out from the election.
I don’t believe that for a minute. Eventually this side show will begin to fade. When we get down to the nitty gritty of actually having to know something about world and domestic issues, this nut will crack. I don’t know whose getting “polled”, but this is totally bogus.
Outlier polls make for good clickbait, but don’t mean much.
If, next spring, the polling averages from diverse polls show Trump consistently on a par with Mrs. Clinton in CA and NY, I’ll take the time to be worried.
PS. Its amazing to think there is a whole cottage industry out there devoted incessantly to generating this stuff on what seems to be an uninterrupted schedule based on presidential campaigning that never seems to end.
Total narrative-manufacturing BS. As soon as the media started facing the fact that Trump might actually win the nomination, it was utterly obvious they would have to promote a “he can beat Hillary!” line. What kind of story is “GOP set to nominate unelectable loon”?
Meanwhile the MSNBC/Marist poll issued yesterday had her leading Trump by 13.
Remember the polls this time in 2011 showing Obama losing to Rick Perry?