Hillary Clinton surged to an eight point lead over Donald Trump coming out of the Democratic convention, according to the national NBC News/Survey Monkey weekly tracking poll released on Tuesday.
Clinton’s lead jumped by seven points, from a 46-45 lead over Trump last week to a 50-42 lead this week.
Clinton also leads Trump when third party candidates are added to the question. It was Clinton 42, Trump 38, Libertarian Gary Johnson 9 and Green Party candidate Jill Stein 4.
Clinton also saw a convention bump in a CNN/ORC poll released on Monday. She led Trump by nine points, reversing his three point lead following the Republican convention.
NBC News/Survey Money polled 12,742 registered voters online July 25-31 with a margin of error plus or minus 1.2 percentage points.
It was the Republican convention that started the bump, the Democratic convention just continued it.
That’s the second poll with Clinton over 50%. Hopefully the bump doesn’t fall too much, and she can stay at 48-52.
It’s not altogether certain that it will. There hasn’t been as thoroughly a deranged candidate as Drumpf bestride the stage in the modern era, perhaps ever. Each day brings more madness and we have nearly 100 more. By Labor Day the race will be jelled (barring the unforeseen), IMHO.
After all this, 42% of the electorate thinks that Trump would be an OK pick for POTUS? Really? REALLY?
Every election comes down to turnout, polls be damned.
The more Trump spouts, the more likely we galvanize the coalition to keep him out of power.
The more hate he spews, the more Independents will vote against him.
The more make it up as he goes along non-conservative BS he vomits forth, the less likely sane Republicans will be to turn out to vote.
The more Hillary speaks, the more likely Democrats and Independents come out to vote for her.