Thread: White House Watch: Clinton 43%, Trump 39%, Johnson 9%, Stein 2%

White House Watch: Clinton 43%, Trump 39%, Johnson 9%, Stein 2%

Thursday, September 08, 2016

The seesaw battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump finds the Democratic nominee back in the lead.

The latest Rasmussen Reports weekly White House Watch national telephone and online survey shows Clinton with 43% support to Donald Trump’s 39%. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson gets nine percent (9%) of the vote, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein earns two percent (2%). Another two percent (2%) like some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Last week, Trump edged ahead of Clinton 40% to 39%. It was the first time he had been in the lead since mid-July. The latest finding is Clinton’s best showing in a month, but the race remains a close one, within or just outside our survey’s +/- 3 margin of error for months.

Clinton earns 78% support among Democratic voters, while 75% of Republicans favor Trump. The two are basically tied among voters not affiliated with either major party, a group Trump has led in for the past several weeks.

Johnson has the support of eight percent (8%) of Republicans, seven percent (7%) of Democrats and 13% of unaffiliateds. Green has no statistical support among GOP voters but wins the backing of one percent (1%) of Democrats and four percent (4%) of unaffiliated voters.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/publ...te_house_watch

Clinton back in the lead in this poll. Ugh!

Need to stay focused on immigration, trade, inner cities, jobs, taxes and the economy, less on emails and the military.

There could also be a problem with this week's Rasmussen Poll because Trump leads by over 20% with independents in other polls including the CNN/ORC poll, but in the Rasmussen Poll this week, they claim they are tied.