Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton swept ahead of Donald Trump in a second bout of swing state polls released Tuesday, this round from NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist.
The polls showed Clinton ahead of the Republican nominee by at least four points among registered voters in Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The race is closest in Iowa, where Clinton polled ahead by four points, 41-37. She’s made a slight gain since the last NBC/WSJ/Marist poll in July, where she led in Iowa by three points.
In Ohio, Clinton leads Trump by five points, 43-38. The two candidates tied at 39 percent in the Buckeye State in the July poll.
And in Pennsylvania, Clinton continued a streak of double-digit leads over Trump, polling 48-37 in this NBC/WSJ/Marist poll. The July survey from the same pollster showed her ahead by nine points.
Clinton also came out ahead in swing state polls released by Quinnipiac University on Tuesday, surveying likely voters in Florida (46-45), Ohio (49-45) and Pennsylvania (52-42).
When factoring in third-party candidates, the NBC/WSJ/Marist poll of Iowa found Clinton and Trump tied at 35 percent, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson polling at 12 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 6 percent.
In Ohio, Clinton still led Trump, 39-35, with Johnson at 12 percent and Stein at 4 percent.
In Pennsylvania, Clinton received 45 percent of the vote, with Trump at 36 percent, Johnson at 9 percent and Stein at 3 percent.
NBC/WSJ/Marist conducted its swing state polls Aug. 3-7 via telephone. The survey included 899 Iowa registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percent, 889 Ohio registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percent, and 834 Pennsylvania registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percent.
I really have to take a step back from the horror of Trump and call attention to the horrifying prospect of the never to be sufficiently damned Libertarians hitting double digits in any state, regardless of the reason and even if it’s helping Hillary.
If Libertarianism becomes the new conservative party after Trump causes the collapse of the GOP, it will be a big step back for America.
I take issue with the Marist poll because they offered “neither” or “other” as choices in the 2 way H2H question. Those are not choices on the ballot. They should’ve done a standard 2 way H2H with undecided. That would allow us to compare to the 4-way poll and see where the growth potential is. I think the reason they didn’t do that in Iowa is because the 2-way would’ve looked bad for Trump because Chuck Todd had indicated that Trump was struggling in NW IA, the GOP stronghold, when they started their survey.
Do. Not. Let. Up. Take the Senate! Flip the House!
Absolutely!!! As @jw1 would say-- No. Effin’. Quarter!! After today, I am more fired up than ever to smash Donnie and give Madame President every tool she requires to accomplish what needs to be done. I want total humiliation of this version of the GOP. Then, I want Repubs to reconstitute themselves as a SANE center-right party. The best ideas are found in the middle, and we need both a strong center-left AND a strong (SANE) center-right party to be equal (and equally compromising) governing partners.
Yes… after an 8-16 year period of GOP contrition for its wrongs of the last 8 years that locks it out of government’s three branches.
The election this year will be a landslide because the overriding issue upon which Americans will vote: Is he sane or not? will be answered overwhelmingly and resoundingly"No"