Poll: Trump gaining on Clinton nationally
Source: USA Today
CLEVELAND As Republicans gather at their partys convention this week, they can also celebrate a new poll that has their presumptive nominee gaining nationally.
A Monmouth University poll has Hillary Clinton just 3 points ahead of Donald Trump with registered voters nationally and 2 points ahead of those surveyed who are most likely to vote in November. Those numbers fall within the margin of error.
Forty-three percent of registered voters said they supported Clinton, and 40% said they backed Trump. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson had 5% and the Green Partys Jill Stein had 2%, while 2% backed someone else entirely.
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Trump can celebrate the bump. Last month, Clinton held a 6-point lead among registered voters and a 7-point lead with likely November voters.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/07/18/monmouth-poll-trump-gaining-clinton-nationally/87250588/
The first day of the convention has victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, condemnations of BLM protestors, and the a schedule that will also turn to Muslims. Basically the GOP loves America more than you do, they just hate everyone who is in it. It is Nixon's 1968 law and order campaign despite the fact that secession and in vogue in the GOP just a few months ago.
CanonRay
(14,149 posts)Apologies to cat lovers!
Angel Martin
(942 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)obnoxiousdrunk
(2,911 posts)be concerned.
rtracey
(2,062 posts)Come on.. Convention.... Plagiarism...... VP pick....... Christie sad.......... wait until after the Democratic convention......
RAFisher
(466 posts)It compared the Monmouth poll with last month's. Just from looking at the surface I'd guess less support for Johnson and more GOP getting in line.
July
Clinton -45%
Trump - 43%
Johnson - 5%
Stein -1%
June
Clinton - 44%
Trump - 37%
Johnson - 9%
Stein - 4%
http://www.monmouth.edu/MonmouthPoll_US_071816/
SunSeeker
(51,834 posts)Statistical
(19,264 posts)It makes sense to. Come election day Johnson and Stein aren't getting 15% of the vote. They will be lucky to split 3%. The early polls always show improbable support for third party candidates.
Wolf Frankula
(3,605 posts)I used to work in polling and market research and I know. Polls and surveys are written for various reasons, to make news, to float or sink an idea, to plant an idea or product in the public consciousness. Seldom are they written to find the truth.
Wolf
sofa king
(10,857 posts)Few things can change minds faster than ridicule. That convention was a total disaster and they're lucky Michelle Obama stole the show, because the rest of it is a comedic monument to stupidity, too.
broadcaster75201
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sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Delphinus
(11,848 posts)Another post says Clinton has a 76% chance of winning - yet this story says differently. Huh?