Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump dropped slightly to six points in the latest national tracking poll of registered voters conducted weekly by NBC News and Survey Monkey.
The former secretary of state’s support dropped from 50 to 48 percent since last week’s survey, while the real estate mogul’s held steady at 42 percent.
When third-party candidates are factored in, Clinton leads with 41 percent compared to 37 percent for Trump. Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein maintain their hold on 11 percent and 5 percent of the vote, respectively.
The poll of 24,104 registered voters was conducted online between Aug. 22-28, and the survey has a margin of error of 1 percentage point.
TPM’s PollTracker Average shows Clinton leading with 46.6 percent compared to 41.1 percent for Trump.
How fucking ridiculous is it that the most experienced, level-headed, prepared candidate in the country is NOT blowing away a psychopathic lunatic with a history of daily sewage spills from his mouth?
What the hell is wrong with America?
Stop betching about these national polls. The media has been trying to make this election interesting. This election is OVER!!! It’s over. Hillary has been running a run out the clock strategy since her surge after the DNC. Trump has a base support of around 35% that will vote for him. Hillary’s numbers after the DNC basically pushed Trumps support to it’s floor. He has tried to rebound and made very small incremental gains. The bottom line is this election is over. Hillary right now will likely not win Arizona or Georgia. But her strategy has been to win the battle ground states.
This election should be Barry Goldwater like but most likely will be 1996 Dole or 2012 Obama numbers for Hillary. She is a flawed candidate and has weak likeable numbers. But she WILL win and that’s all that counts.
I am waiting for after labor day. Giuliani stated they would be even with Hillary come labor day. Hillary’s campaign has a plan. Obama and Biden will pick up campaigning and then you have the debates and bottom line. If Hillary is winning by around these numbers come October. Then it’s a coast to victory.
I think the best ads that HRC could continually run are lists of all the influential GOP’ers who have defected, because they think Drumpf would be a disaster as POTUS. Won’t do a thing to swing his hardcore, dim-witted following, but should help sway anyone still sitting on the fence.
I agree with most of your post – except for your description of her campaign strategy so far as “running out the clock.” I think she is waiting until after Labor Day to unleash her full arsenal. So far, all she’s really had to do is sit back and let Donnie be the clown that he is (and watch as several stories came about how he does/did business). Campaigns are a marathon-- you don’t need to expend all your energy and resources in August. She and Tim Kaine (I think) are playing this perfectly.
As you note, in a couple of weeks, POTUS, FLOTUS and Uncle Joe (not to mention Sen. Warren, she of the nimble Twitter finger with a Boston Brawler sensibility) will be hitting the hustings hard, fast and loud. The poll numbers will move ever more in Clinton’s favor. That first debate will put it to bed.
While Arizona won’t turn blue, don’t give up on Georgia just yet. I think there is some hope especially if Atlanta and its suburbs turn out.
Oh, and let’s not forget The Big Dog in all of this. He might not be the same as his glory days in the 90s, but his worst days on the stump are still 10x better than Donnie’s best days.
Strap in, everyone … After Sept. 6, it gets real
Her campaign has been spending heavily on ads appearing in key states, defining him negatively. I think she has been holding back a bit in terms of getting attention for herself, because Trump has been campaigning against himself so effectively in recent weeks.