Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are tied, 46-46, in a head-to-head matchup among likely voters, according to a national Bloomberg Politics poll released Monday morning.
Since Bloomberg Politics’ August poll, when Clinton led Trump by six points among likely voters, the Democratic nominee dropped four points and Trump gained two points.
When third party candidates were added to the question in the poll released Monday morning, Trump led Clinton by two points, 43-41, among likely voters with Libertarian Gary Johnson at 8 points and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 4 points. In the August Bloomberg poll, Clinton led Trump by four points in a four-person race among likely voters, 44-40, with Johnson at 9 points and Stein at 4 points.
TPM’s PollTracker Average shows Clinton leading Trump 46.2 to 45.6.
Iowa pollster Ann Selzer conducted the poll for Bloomberg Politics. Selzer surveyed 1,002 likely voters via phone Sept. 21-24 with a margin of error plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Don’t worry - the Clinton campaign has it all figured out: they’re gonna put Mark Cuban in the front row at tonight’s debate!
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At the rate that Gary “I Swear I Don’t Smoke Pot Anymore, Scout’s Honor” Johnson is making gaffes, and with people realizing that Stein is an anti-science kook, I think this election will revert pretty close to the mean in terms of Libertarian/Green support.
This poll is as predictable as the sunrise. The big debate needs to be hyped. What better way to hype it than a poll that shows the candidates tied. Made for the rubes poll by the snake oil salesmen at Bloomberg.
You mean the same Bloomberg business that has several daily hit pieces on Hillary on their web page?
I can see a dynamic which allows people to disregard stories about Trump’s lying, and his business corruption, etc.
For about 18 months, the coverage of Trump has been remarkably “balanced”, in the bad sense of the word.
To a casual observer, it might seem that Trump is a strong businessman, an outstanding negotiator, and a straight talker who brings what America needs. Should the coverage from now until November sharply diverge, voters might see this as the press unfairly trying to take sides—to game the election in Clinton’s favor. After all, Trump has been the same candidate, the same crook, the same liar all along. If the media begins covering him wrong, that IS a problem.