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Hillary Clinton has surged to a 15-point lead over reeling, gaffe-plagued Donald Trump, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
Clinton made strong gains with two constituencies crucial to a Republican victory – whites and men — while scoring important gains among fellow Democrats, the poll found.
Clinton not only went up, but Trump went down. Clinton now has a 48-33 lead, a huge turnaround from her narrow 42-39 advantage last momth.
The findings are particularly significant because the poll was taken after both political conventions ended, and as Trump engaged in a war of words with the parents of Army Capt. Humayun Khan, killed in the Iraq War 12 years ago.
We need to be careful about just how accurate polls are but the trend is very much away from Trump and to Clinton. Just how wide a gap is up for debate but there is definitely a gap. Trump has not had an especially good week and unless he starts to turn his campaign around then we could be looking at a landslide for Clinton. And I think that would be a terrible thing.
We need to be careful about just how accurate polls are but the trend is very much away from Trump and to Clinton. Just how wide a gap is up for debate but there is definitely a gap. Trump has not had an especially good week and unless he starts to turn his campaign around then we could be looking at a landslide for Clinton. And I think that would be a terrible thing.
Trump has not "had an especially good week".
He's had an unmitigated, almost unprecedented, disaster of a campaign since his convention.
Even during after his Convention bump, his support among college grads actually shrank at the same time that his non-college support continued to grow. He can't win with support from non-college voters alone; in fact he can't come close.
All that being said, this poll is likely an outlier, but it's just the worst of a very bad run of polls for Mr. Trump after the conventions. With the Olympics starting tomorrow, the polls will probably stay pretty constant until at some point in late August. It will be interesting to see where they stand on what used to be the beginning of the Presidential Election season commencing with the Labor Day Weekend.
Last edited by Bureaucat; 08-04-2016 at 03:34 PM..
it will be a SAD DAY IN AMERICA when either HRC or Trump wins.
320 MILLION people in this country and this is the best we could come up with???
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