New Poll: Clinton Leads Trump By 3 Points In Hypothetical Election

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had a 3 point lead over presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in a hypothetical general election, according to a poll released Sunday.

The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed that 46 percent of voters said they would support Clinton and 43 percent said they would vote Trump.

In April, Clinton held an 11 point advantage over Trump in a hypothetical general election, according to the poll.

The poll was conducted May 15-19 among 1,000 national voters interviewed by phone. The poll’s margin of error was plus/minus 3.1 percentage points.

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  1. Exactly. We have an electoral college in these here parts.

  2. Another day, another bullshit “Poll”.
    The poll was conducted May 15-19 among 1,000 national voters who were HOME during the DAY and were so lonely or confused that they were willing to be interviewed on their land-line phone.
    TFIFY.
    In this upcoming election, Clinton will have to overcome irrational hatred, and Trump will have to encourage more irrational support.
    It will all come down to GOTV.

  3. National voting isn’t how we elect Presidents. So, there is that.

    But, she is still up 3 points in this poll (and more importantly up in the poll aggregators, which are including the always silly Ras polls and Fox polls), despite the fact that a sizable minority of Democratic/likely Democratic voters are still backing Sanders

    I am not getting too interested, one way or the other,about these until after the conventions, and both sides receive their post convention bumps.

  4. Come on guys, we know that until Sanders drops out the polling won’t be that accurate and we know a week or two after the conventions we should trust polling aggregates. Anything they do now is a waste of time.

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