Thread: National Pew poll: Clinton leads Trump by 4

National Pew poll: Clinton leads Trump by 4

By Louis Nelson
08/18/16 02:01 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump is 4 points nationwide, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Thursday that also includes Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

Forty-one percent of the registered voters reached by Pew said they would vote for Clinton if the election were held today or are leaning in her direction, while 37 percent said the same of Trump. The former secretary of state's 4-point lead over Trump represents a dip from the 9-point advantage of 45 percent to 36 percent that she held in a Pew poll conducted in late June, although that survey did not include Stein as an option.

Johnson and Stein, who would need to hit 15 percent in certain polls in order to qualify for the general election debates, came in at 10 percent and 4 percent, respectively, in the latest survey. The Pew poll is not one of the five being used as criteria by the Commission on Presidential Debates to determine which candidates qualify.

Trump’s struggles with female voters are well-documented and continue in the poll released Thursday: Women registered to vote prefer Clinton by a 19-point margin, 49 percent to 30 percent. With men who are registered to vote, Trump holds a smaller, 12-point lead over Clinton, 45 percent to 33 percent.

Support among registered voters for Clinton and Trump also splits along education lines. Respondents with a college degree preferred the former secretary of state to the Manhattan businessman by a 13-point margin of 47 percent to 34 percent, while those with a postgraduate degree backed Clinton by an even bigger 38-point spread over Trump.

The former reality TV star leads Clinton among respondents with some or no college education, 41 percent to 36 percent, and has a 51-26 percent lead over her among white voters with some or no college education. College-educated, white registered voters reached by Pew favored Clinton, 47 percent to 33 percent.

Eighty-seven percent of those who said they either support Trump or are leaning his way are white, while 5 percent said they are Hispanic and just 1 percent said they are black. Those who favored Clinton in the poll were 59 percent white, 24 percent black and 10 percent Hispanic.

The Pew poll was conducted in both Spanish and English via landlines and cellphones from Aug. 9-16 and reached 2,010 adults age 18 or older, 1,567 of whom said they are registered to vote. The margin of error for the full sample size was plus or minus 2.5 percentage points, and the margin of error for registered voters was plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...winning-227160

So:

Trump has TIED Clinton in the LA USC Poll.

Trump has gained and is now only 2 points behind in the Rasmussen Poll.

Trump has gained and is now only 4 points behind in the National Pew Poll.

GO TRUMP GO!!!!

LET TRUMP BE TRUMP!!!!