Posted on 10/08/2016 8:42:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican nominee for president of the United States Donald Trump continues to trail Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that was released on Friday night. The poll, which was conducted from Sept. 30-Oct. 6 and included 1,695 likely voters from all 50 states, had a margin of sampling error of three percentage points. Likely voters were picked based on registration status, voting history and stated intention to vote in the election.
“The Sept. 30-Oct. 6 opinion poll showed that 43 percent of likely voters supported Clinton while 38 percent supported Trump. Clinton has consistently led Trump by 4-6 points in every weekly poll since the beginning of September. During this period, the candidates faced off in the most-watched presidential debate in history – a matchup that a majority of Americans believed Clinton won. The New York Times also released portions of Trump’s 1995 tax returns that showed the celebrity real estate developer had reported a loss that was big enough to have allowed him to avoid paying personal taxes for a number of years.”
As the Inquisitr reported last week, Clinton led Trump 43 percent to 38 percent in the same Reuters/Ipsos poll that was conducted from Sept. 23-29. Last week’s poll included 2,501 participants and had a margin of sampling error of only two percentage points, so it was considered slightly more accurate. Regardless, yesterday’s results show that Clinton has the same five-point lead over Trump.
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While Trump has said numerous controversial things over the course of his campaign, his latest remarks regarding women may be towards the top of the list. As CNN reports, Trump released a video on Saturday morning apologizing for his remarks that were heard in a 2005 tape. While Trump apologized, he quickly went on the offense against Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
In addition to blaming the Clintons for running the country into the ground, Trump went on to say that Bill Clinton has abused women. He then said that Hillary has bullied and shamed Bill’s victims. While Bill Clinton has been involved in various controversies regarding women, most notably with Monica Lewinsky, potential voters may be put off by Trump’s attack on the Clintons in his apology.
Additionally, it appears as though Trump is going to address those issues in the second presidential debate, which will take place on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.
Even with all of Trump’s controversies, Clinton is failing to significantly separate herself from him. Along with the recent email scandal, potential voters view Clinton as dishonest and untrustworthy. Since neither candidate is particularly liked, many Americans will have to ultimately settle when they vote in November.
Public opinion regarding the recent vice presidential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence is mixed, but most unbiased sources view Pence as the winner. While certain left-wing outlets have admitted that Pence won, they said it was only because he refused to answer questions. Regardless, Pence is a positive for the Trump campaign, which has consistently gotten off track over the past few months. He even issued a statement regarding Trump’s comments regarding women, which were seen in the 2005 tape.
With exactly one month to go until the election, it is really still anyone’s race. Clinton should be considered ahead at this point, but Trump has remained close in recent months. Throughout most of the summer, Clinton held a double-digit lead over Trump in the Reuters/Ipsos favorability poll. In the beginning of September, Trump actually led Clinton for a short time. She has since regained the lead, but she has been unable to extend it.
Tomorrow’s debate could make or break Trump. If he comes prepared this time, he has a chance to sway more undecided voters. If he has a similar performance that he did in the first debate, things could get ugly in the polls very quickly.
Trump is up double digits nationwide.
I was thinking this poll way over sampled dimoKKKRATS. Something was out of wack with it for sure.
I’m ready to crawl over glass and run through walls to vote for Trump and only Trump. And he wasn’t even my first or second choice when the primary campaigns began. My eyes have been opened though about the Uniparty. I can only hope and pray that this nonsense backfires on the GOPe and Hillary and he is stronger than ever. It’s either Trump or we go to the mattresses.
There’s a Yuuuge difference between locker room talk and a 30+ year streak of criminal activity as a public servant!
Vote Trump
Thats a good way to put it.
How come no one talks about Obama’s bromance with Jay Z, who wrote in his lyrics that women were “hoes”?
Trump is up double digits nationwide.
Trump may be ahead, but it isn't by double digits. Maybe 3-5%, if we're lucky.
If human gaff machine Joe Biden had said exactly the sam the conservative media would have furiously waved its hands for about 24 hours, the mainstream media would have ignored it, and story would have died unnoticed by 90% of the public.
Our media is, in its own way, hardly more free than in the USSR.
Society is so sex-crazed and smutty at this point that I really cant imagine people being terribly fazed by this. The media coverage is more hurtful to Trump than the actual tape.
We are NOT going to see any effect about this yet in any polls, because whats important isn’t what happened, its how the swing voters are going to react to the media and GOPe hysteria. In a few days we will know, I expect some reaction in the polls, probably not as much as the pundits/media/GOPe think.
It all depends on the turnout. The current polls are using turnout models that favor dems. That worked for the past two elections but likely will not for the coming election. Time will tell. There is no enthusiasm for the beast. There is a lot of enthusiasm for Trump, sans the pearl clutchers of course.
The press wants to keep the numbers close so it looks plausible for Hillary to win in a vote fraud squeaker.
The press wants to keep the numbers close so it looks plausible for Hillary to win in a vote fraud squeaker.
.............................. We are dealing with a woman who will do anything to win. I’m sure she has told her staff, “I must win, so do all you can to assure that, I don’t care how you accomplish it, just do it.” “We need votes so get those worthless pieces of S#it of their A$$e$ to register and vote for me.” (LOL, you don’t think she would talk like that? LOL. Riiight.)
Eventually more voters will conclude that the new revelations found in Hillary’s paid speeches are more damaging than Trump’s goofy New Yorker locker room blather form Eleven years ago when he was a Democrat. This will be seen as an attempted coup by the Never Trumpers. I haven’t seen Mitt so happy in many years. Plus, in spite of the rigging of the upcoming debate, Trump will most likely do better than Hillary this time around. He is a very quick study.
If the voting public has finally figured out how it’s being manipulated by the LMSM, members of the LMSM may be in for a very bad time.
Tomorrow night will be as bloody as Juanita Broderick’s rape. VERY!!
go to the mattresses. One of my favorite expressions. Yes that’s what we will do. But we won’t have to because Trump is going to win
I am more optimistic about a Trump win now, after listening to Part 2 of and interview with Dr. James Willie. He has a doctorate in Statistical Analysis from Harvard, I believe.
The interviewer asked him what he thought about the elections, and he went into much detail (which went right over my head!). But the gist of what he said was, the polls are biased/bogus, they can only cheat at a max of 15%, AND
from what he was able to analyze, the real meaning of the polls was that Trump was actually ahead by about 27 points!
27 point lead!!
I feel SO MUCH BETTER NOW!
So sick of these so called “polls” I could puke. I’ve stopped paying any attention to them and I only scanned the first paragraph of this post.
The only poll that matters is held Nov. 8th
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