Hillary Clinton held her six point lead over Donald Trump in the weekly national tracking poll released by NBC News and Survey Monkey on Tuesday morning.
Clinton leads Trump 48-42 in a head-to-head match up, unchanged from last week’s tracking poll.
When third party candidates were added to the question, Clinton leads Trump by four points, 41-37, with Libertarian Gary Johnson at 12 points and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 4 points.
TPM’s PollTracker Average shows Clinton leading Trump 44.8 to 43.4.
NBC News/Survey Monkey surveyed 32,226 registered voters online Aug. 29-Sept. 4 with a margin of error plus or minus 1 percentage point.
Johnson is a fraud. Not enough is being written about his strange ideas, and many Bernie supporters, most idiots, will vote for him.
I assume that Clinton will devote attention to him soon, possibly by ads in battleground states.
Maybe Clinton should want Johnson in the debates.
AND YET…All I have seen so far this morning on MSNBC, CNN and Headline News is: “New CNN poll shows dead heat in national race. Trump hold a 2 point advantage in latest CNN poll (*among ‘Likely Voters’). Trump leads among Independents by 20 points. Republican are much more energized than Democrats…blah, blah, blah.”
Suddenly a fucking CNN poll becomes some great oracle of polls. Nothing concerning battleground states. Nothing about electoral totals. Just wholesale spin in Trump’s favor. Even MSNBC hasn’t mention their own damned poll. Arggghhh! ____ All for the ‘horse race’ and the revenues the MSM wants so desperately. It’s maddening and misleading and very predictable.
Actually, Clinton is leading by two in CNN poll- but I understand your concern. **Everyone knows that CNN is full of shit.
You’re correct. The poll shows Trump leading Clinton by 2 points among “Likely Voters”! That in itself is frightening ‘click bait’ and also misleading. And your assessment of CNN is too kind.