Posted on 08/04/2016 8:36:29 AM PDT by usafa92
A post-convention bounce appears to have given Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton her biggest lead over Republican rival Donald Trump since June in our latest weekly White House Watch survey. This is the first update that includes both the Libertarian and Green Party candidates.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone and online survey finds Clinton with 44% support to Republican nominee Donald Trump’s 40%. Six percent (6%) prefer Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, while three percent (3%) back Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Another three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) remain undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Clinton and Trump were virtually dead even over the previous two weeks. Support for Clinton ties its highest level in Rasmussen Reports tracking since October of last year. Trump reached a high of 44% support in mid-July. Support for Johnson is down slightly from a high of nine percent (9%) a month ago. This is the first survey to include Stein.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans now support Trump, down from 86% a week ago, while Clinton’s support among Democrats has risen from 79% last week to 82% this week. Fourteen percent (14%) of Republicans now prefer Clinton, while 11% of Democrats support Trump.
Trump once again leads Clinton among voters not affiliated with either party 41% to 29% after Clinton held a five-point lead a week ago. Johnson draws support from three percent (3%) of Republicans, two percent (2%) of Democrats and 14% of voters not affiliated with either party. Stein picks up five percent (5%) of the vote from unaffiliateds and just two percent (2%) support each from Republicans and Democrats.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on August 1-2, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Voters followed both national political conventions with equal interest but think Clinton benefited more from hers than Trump did from his. Clinton leads Trump 50% to 32% among women this week, a significantly larger gap from last week. Trump leads 49% to 37% among men, also a noticeable jump from a week ago.
Clinton has bounced back into contention in the key state of Nevada in a survey conducted after the convention. Voters are very suspicious about the 30,000 e-mails Clinton and her staff chose to delete and not turn over to the FBI and aren’t all together sure it would be a bad thing if Russia returned those e-mails to investigators here. The FBI has concluded that Clinton potentially exposed top secret information to hostile countries when she illegally used a private e-mail server as secretary of State. Most voters disagree with FBI Director James Comey’s decision not to seek a criminal indictment against the Democratic presidential nominee.
Despite complaints from progressives in her party, Clinton’s decision to make Virginia Senator Tim Kaine her running mate makes little difference to voters. Voters are strongly convinced that Bill Clinton will be involved in his wife’s policy decisions if she is elected to the White House this fall.
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You're in San Bernardino? I knew Robert Adams one of the victims of the San Bernardino killing. About six months before he died I talked to him about a guy that worked with him that Robert called a Muslim Fundamentalist. I thought that was odd he used that term fundamentalist when he didn't know much about Islam.
It wasn't that long after another major Islamic Jihad(non-Muslim killing) and we talked about it. He gave me all the medias narratives about how peaceful Islam was. He was convinced Islam was no different then Christianity or Judaism.
Because I never heard anyone call a Muslim by that term I told Robert to be careful. He laughed at me for saying that. He said something about him being not that bad.
The media's misdirection and political correctness is getting people killed for no reason.
Trump is a walking/talking disaster. Lied 3 times in 24 hours about seeing video of the $400 million ransom payment being delivered.
I even commented on FR as to who took the video of the top secret transfer.
Oh, and here is Trump's apology from 3 hours ago:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago
The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!
Now get on board, or get lost. I am so tired of you concern trolls criticizing the man in the arena when he is taking fire from all sides.
Sorry, I meant 660 AM KSKY.
General MacArthur's famous saying is applicable to the GOP-e and pseudo-conservatives who are supposedly the enemy of the Left yet continue sniping at the only alternative to Hillary Clinton.
Trump is behaving as though he wants Hillary to win.
Really?
Time for new glasses.
Something tells me you’re a Cruzbot.
No, just an objective observer. I was done with Cruz when he blamed the left wing violence at the Trump rally on Trump.
So if you’re not voting for Trump you’re supporting Clinton because one of them will be the next president. If you’re supporting Trump why badmouth him. That’s playing right into the hands of the liberals. They love for republicans to blast Trump. They even hire NeverTrumpers to sit on their “panel” so they all laugh at Trump together.
Thanks for sharing.
No, I live in Harford County, Maryland.
Sorry to hear you lost someone you knew in the San Bernardino attack.
Indeed, political correctness, obfuscation and abject weakness is going to get us all killed barring a miracle (President Donald Trump)!!
BTW, I used to abhor the NRA, but Mr. Trump’s argument that tragedies like San Bernardino may be lessened or prevented altogether is good people had guns to protect themselves.
Furthermore, I woke up and realized that gun-free zones are nothing but open invitations for terrorists. I believe every school ought to have trained personnel on campus to at least give kids and teachers a fighting chance.
Even the shooting at Fort Hood the soldiers other then the Military police have weapons. The MP's had to be called up then they could respond.
The Truck driver was stopped by people with weapons. The drive would have filled up gas and keep going if no one could stop him. This anti-gun thing isn't even logical.
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