Hillary Clinton takes a six-point lead over Donald Trump, coming back from a recent tie in the Ipsos/Reuters national tracking poll. But the new numbers come from before the first presidential debate held Monday, so the impact of that event is not measured.
Clinton leads 44-38 in a head-to-head match among likely voters in the weekly poll.
Her lead narrows slightly when third party candidates are included, to 42-38, with Libertarian Gary Johnson polling at 7 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 2 percent.
In the previous week’s Ipsos/Reuters poll, the two candidates were tied at 39 percent in the head-to-head poll. In the four-way match, Trump took a two point lead, 39-37, with Johnson at 7 percent and Stein at 2 percent.
The Ipsos/Reuters tracking poll was conducted online from Sept. 22-26, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent.
TPM’s PollTracker Average for the national general election shows Clinton leading Trump, 46.4 to 41.1.
Well, to be fair the pollsters should be asking voters if they’ve heard the facts about Monica Lewinsky and Vince Foster…
Yes! I really don’t understand why the Trump camp seems convinced bringing up all that old thoroughly hashed over cr@p is going to suddenly shift the race. Do they think people don’t know she’s married to Bill? It’s so weird.
Shhh…That’s Trump’s October Surprise.
A six point shift in one week?
These tracking polls are worthless.
Yeah but at lest they’re worthless in the right direction