Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by four points nationally in a new Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.
Clinton received 45 percent support among registered voters, and Trump received 41 percent support. Clinton’s lead over Trump dipped slightly from the last Quinnipiac poll conducted in March, when she led the presumptive Republican presidential nominee by six points.
In the new poll, Trump leads Clinton among male voters 51-35 percent, and Clinton leads Trump among female voters 54-30 percent.
Trump was viewed as slightly less favorable among voters than Clinton. Fifty-nine percent of voters said Trump was somewhat or strongly unfavorable, while 57 percent said Clinton was somewhat or strongly unfavorable.
Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,561 registered voters via phone May 24-30 with a margin of error of 2.5 percent.
This poll is extremely useful since we definitely elect presidents based on the national popular vote.
Was it NCSteve who described such functionally meaningless polls as “giddyup political journalism?”
I don’t know that a 4 point lead by Clinton at a time when Republicans are uniting behind their candidate and the Democrats are still divided between two candidates is terrible news.
Sounds about right!
And with only 5 months to go, this looks like a very close race…stay tuned for more !