Clinton National Lead Steady at 5 Points[Trunc] [PPP D+9 Clinton +5]

PPP ^ | 8/30/16 | Tom Jensen

[BigEdLB]

PPP's newest national poll finds a pretty steady race- but that the candidates are getting even more unpopular as the election approaches, with undecideds actually going up when they would usually be on the decline at this stage in the campaign. Hillary Clinton leads with 42% to 37% for Donald Trump, 6% for Gary Johnson, 4% for Jill Stein, and 1% for Evan McMullin, with 10% of voters still undecided. A month ago Clinton actually led 46/41 but both she and Trump's support has dropped by 4 points, with support for third party candidates increasing from 8% to 11% and the level of undecideds increasing from 5% to 10%. It's a similar story in the head to head- Clinton's 5 point lead is the same as a month ago, but now it's 48/43 instead of 50/45 with undecideds increasing from 5% to 9%.

[fortheDeclaration]

They aren’t.

[pabianice]

“Would you rather vote for the psychotic, murderous, bigoted Trump, or the wonderful light-bringer Hillary?”

[PghBaldy]

Thank you for posting this. The questions are shockingly biased against Trump.

[Gargantua]

"... Hillary has been very steady at 42% while Trump has been very steady at 38%..."

Only among "likely voters," which is how most polls are taken, using people who have voted in at least 2 of the last 3 national elections.

Such polls ignore the nearly equal number of those who haven't voted in years, and those who have never voted. Nearly all of whom are voting Trump (he alone is the reason they're voting this time!), and none of whom these polls reflect.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Oh I agree, I just want pointing out that the race has been very static since the beginning with a LARGE number of undecided (if they are truly undecided or just afraid to admit their true support)

[SteveO87]

Even with the inflammatory Trump questions it is only a 5 point Clinton lead with +9 Dem.
So they are doing everything to sway the answers with their inflammatory questions and they still can’t!

[SteveO87]

Do you know what poll it was?

[Future Useless Eater]

A month ago Clinton actually led 46/41 but both she and Trump's support has dropped by 4 points...

Well DUH! Those pollsters and writers are idiots, (or assume the public is idiots)

A month ago was just 10 days after the RNC when Trump had a "bounce", and few days after the DNC when the MSM polls SWORE that Cankles had a huge bounce.

Also, a month ago, all Bernouts were definitely "decided" who they wanted, plus many Cruz fans, and even Kasich fans still wanted their own guy.

So there are no surprises here that large numbers of voters are still UN-decided.
Its not even surprising that MSM pollsters continue to over-sample "registered" Dems by 5%, and over-sample women, often by as much as 10%.

I like to watch the ISW poll, which I presume it may over-sample in Trump's favor by about 5 to 8%, but this poll was super handy during the primaries and it is very good for spotting trends.

Note the OHIO "trend" below for Cankles !

This poll says it used respondents who were (36.3% Republicans, 35.7% Democrats, and 28.0% Other).

ISW says it "was started in March 2012 by two friends with two very different views of politics. We are constantly finding and building new ways to boost voter engagement and education using information, data, and breaking technologies."

The methodology of this poll is comparable to the (UPI Cvoter, USC LA Times, and PPD) polls,
where THIS poll averages 30 days of online results for each data point, where as the later 3 poll average 7 days of online results for each data point.


By comparison to these four polls above, the Reuters/Ipsos poll is total garbage; that one is the most left-leaning Soros-led junk poll.

[11th_VA]

Trump’s going to have his best week yet. Meeting with the Mexican President tomorrow and then an African American Church on Sunday while Hillary is on bed rest ... Trump will be leading handily by next week ...

[Red Steel]

Thanks. Looks great for Trump.

[Enlightened1]

Hence, why the media has a 6% trust rate

[blueplum]

oh lookie - Reuters woke up - after being called out :)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3464547/posts

[Voluntaryist]

Pretty amazing, thanks for posting :)

[NYRepublican72]

Not just that, but if you have an IVR poll and start asking ridiculous questions like that, if you’re a Republican, you’re going to have a tendency to hang up on the poll.

So if they didn’t complete out the survey, that may be a reason for the D+9 sample and why the margin remained at C+5.

[Boomer]

What is a Carnie?

Carnival worker who travels with the circus/carnival. Known for being not too bright but are con men because their goal is to separate the carnival goer from their money. "A sucker born every minute"

Definitely a very different lifestyle. In the old days teens would run off to be a carnie to get out of the house but not finish school or get a formal education.

[manc]

Remains steady, love the headline. how about her numbers have dropped in the headline.

yet again the pollsters, the media and the B/S elitist twist the truth , or outright lie.

[babble-on]

unsubscribe

[SamAdams76]

D+9? Really?

Does anybody seriously think that will mirror the November turnout?

Trump is in the lead here and that lead will grow.

[bert]

Never the less......... I worry

[Heart of Georgia]

“asking ridiculous questions”

Where did you find the questions? I went to the PPP site but didn’t see anything..