As the most caustic campaign in modern American history nears its close, Hillary Clinton has built a formidable lead over Donald Trump approaching 10 percentage points, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. But she faces a deeply divided nation that is alarmed about the prospect of Election Day violence and […] Read more »
The Tipping Points of the 2016 Election
What are the tipping points in the states likely to decide the 2016 presidential election? Bellwether counties in swing states show that the demographic gulf between the Democrats’ more urban coalition and the Republicans’ base of rural and blue collar whites is poised to grow ever larger in 2016. To […] Read more »
Where Are The Undecided Voters?
Every new poll seems to provide support for one of two impressions of the race: one in which Hillary Clinton is pulling away toward a historic landslide, and another in which Clinton holds a lead but Donald Trump remains on the fringes of contention. … About 15 percent of the […] Read more »
Clinton in 12-point lead, potential for downballot gains
The final pre-election national survey for Democracy Corps shows Clinton moving into a commanding 12-point lead over Trump, getting to 50 percent of the vote as the third party vote is squeezed. This lead is produced by some historic voting patterns and a breathtakingly unpopular Republican Party led by Donald […] Read more »
Stressed About the Election? If So, You’ve Got Company
For all their sharp differences, supporters of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have one thing in common: election-related stress. Nearly half of likely voters in an ABC News tracking poll, 46 percent, describe the election as a source of stress in their lives, including roughly equal numbers of Clinton and […] Read more »
Most see a Hillary Clinton victory and a fair count ahead
Almost 7 in 10 voters nationwide say they think Hillary Clinton will win the presidency next month, but most say that if that happens, Donald Trump will not accept the results and concede, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »