Posted on 09/06/2016 5:59:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
A new CNN poll shows Republican Donald Trump has closed an 11-point gap with Democrat Hillary Clinton and leads her nationally in the race for the White House by two points.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton start the race to November 8 on essentially even ground, with Trump edging Clinton by a scant two points among likely voters, and the contest sparking sharp divisions along demographic lines in a new CNN/ORC Poll.
Trump tops Clinton 45% to 43% in the new survey, with Libertarian Gary Johnson standing at 7% among likely voters in this poll and the Green Party's Jill Stein at just 2%.Among those likely to turn out in the fall, both candidates have secured about the same share of their own partisans (92% of Democrats back Clinton, 90% of Republicans are behind Trump) but independents give Trump an edge, 49% say they'd vote for him while just 29% of independent voters back Clinton.
Here's a key point from Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
More @CNN #poll: Trump up 20% among Independents; has 90% of Republicans. His voters more excited than hers (OK, that's not breaking news)— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) September 6, 2016
And he has this going for him:
A majority of Clinton's supporters say they're less excited about voting this year than usual (55%) while most of Trump's backers say they're more excited this time around (56%).
Trump is leading Clinton on the issues of the economy and terrorism, while Clinton beats him out on foreign policy and immigration. He also leads Clinton on trustworthiness 50 percent to 35 percent.
It's clear the recent campaign shakeup, Trump's trip to Mexico last week and Hillary Clinton's ongoing email scandal and Clinton Foundation woes are having a significant impact.
Besides the weighting I understand they do additional massages to the numbers maybe that is where they get their final tallies. From years past there was what was called the Zogby special sauce. I guess we could make up a new name for CNN. On another thread someone posted Certainly Not the News.
Yes, I don’t like that weighting. Don’t D’s always outnumber R’s on election day?
“while Clinton beats him out on foreign policy”
I’m expecting the moderators in the upcoming debates to toss Trump gotcha questions, Hugh Hewitt style. They’ll try to paint him as naive and uninformed. Hillary will be fed the answers in advance, and coached to parrot them with confidence.
TTTT!
I watched the opening campaign discussion on the Today show. They highlighted a poll that showed Trump about six points behind Clinton nationally and being clobbered in the battleground states and with no chance in the Electoral College.
This will no doubt be the poll cited by Limbaugh today.
This was all being presented frenetically by announcing that it was down to “crunch” time in the election. The day after Labor Day has always been the beginning of the presidential election, with crunch time traditionally being called about a week before the vote.
Today show is attempting to time warp the election. The FBI files that were dumped on Friday were not mentioned, but a few questions were raised about Trump’s business activities.
We can expect NBC to ratchet up the alarm and the stampeding attempts as time moves on.
I switched over to ABC and they had Trump about two points ahead of Clinton.
You know the robots at CNN hate to have to reveal this. You could almost feel sorry for the worthless, anti-American, lying bastards.
No surprise here. The polls have been skewed in Hillary’s favor, but the polling organizations must show some credibility as election day nears. Their existence depends on some level of accuracy.
Romney won independents 50% to 45%.
Spot on. This was a tactic used by her campaign - and the mainstream media - to discourage Trump supporters. Almost the entire month of August we were told of Hillary's insurmountable lead.
Don't trust the media. Don't trust anything coming out of the Clinton campaign. Just get out and vote.
It appears that the “stuff” drip, drip, dripping out of the Clinton Crime Syndicate has finally turned corrosive. FINALLY!!
But it begs a question that DOES NOT augur well for our nation’s future: WHAT THE HELL TOOK SO LONG????
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3466416/posts
“In September of 2012 the same poll had Obama beating Romney by 6.”
Interesting, just about the margin by which Obola won.
Just had to put Hillary Clinton and blows in the same headline...
I don’t think she ever had a double digit lead. It was fabricated by the media and their ‘pollsters’.
She was never up, certainly not by that much. Since this is CNN I’m assuming Trump is up by 5-6.
You got that right!
R+4? Never happen.
A wave of Hillary ‘comeback’ polls is on its way.
Spot on. This was a tactic used by her campaign - and the mainstream media - to discourage Trump supporters. Almost the entire month of August we were told of Hillary's insurmountable lead.
Don't trust the media.
WHY would anyone with an IQ much above dirt believe ANYTHING the media says?
We know for SURE the Demorats fixed the Demorat primaries
We know for sure the Demorats correpsond with the presstitutes
Therefore we know for sure the things the presstitutes can control will be skewed for the Demorats, i.e. the Presstitutes will lie and skew as much as they can.
The only way for Hussein Obama and the terrorists can win the election AGAIN is for the election to be fixed. Go ahead Hussein, forge the numbers again you lying Muslim scumbag traitor. Jail awaits you scumbags.
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