A second swing state poll released Thursday showed Democrat Hillary Clinton running ahead of Republican nominee Donald Trump, this time leading him by six points among likely voters in Florida.
The Suffolk University poll of likely Florida voters showed Clinton leading Trump, 48-42, when facing head-to-head.
Clinton’s lead narrows when third party candidates are introduced. She polled at 43 percent, Trump followed at 39 percent, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson polled at 4 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein polled at 3 percent.
Suffolk University has not surveyed Florida voters recently, but a previous Florida poll conducted by NBC/WSJ/Marist in July showed Clinton ahead of Trump by seven points.
The Florida poll follows a Franklin & Marshall poll released earlier Thursday that showed Clinton with an 11-point lead over Trump among likely voters in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania.
The Suffolk University poll was conducted Aug. 1-3 via telephone. The survey included 500 likely Florida voters with a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.
That was one hell of a successful convention.
Ratf$cking by Putin or Julian Assange, not withstanding; it really is almost over before it started. It’s Hillary’s to lose.
Uneducated white voters, along with minorities and immigrants, the ones who would be hurt the most by a Trump presidency.
Unfortunately, the media is now making it appear as if the only reason Hillary is up by so much is because of tRump’s implosion and not because of her convention, her policies, or her ideas being better than the other guy’s. It really is another case of how she gets absolutely no credit for running a successful campaign no matter what she does. The built-in narrative seems to be that she only wins if tRump self-destructs on the other side. I think that’s bullshit. Even if he was still getting his 40% old white male voters as his ceiling up until election day…he isn’t gonna win unless he can attract other types of voters, which he’s already proven incapable of doing.
The main thing is that Dems need to show up at the polls and vote the Democratic ticket from the top on down the ballot if they really want progressive ideas and policies to continue to shape the next several years in this country.
Absolutely false. She gets 79% of the credit that any male candidate would in the same position.