Hillary Clinton remains ahead of Donald Trump with just three weeks until Election Day. She has a six-point lead over Trump, 45-39 percent, in a new Fox News Poll of likely voters. Clinton was up by seven points last week (45-38 percent) and by two in early October (44-42 percent). […] Read more »
Top Pollsters Expect Clinton To Win
Top public election pollsters are almost unanimous in their belief that Hillary Clinton will be the next president and are pretty sure that Republicans will retain control of the House. But they’re much less sure about who will control the next Senate. Many also anticipate a bigger gap than usual […] Read more »
How low can Trump go in the polls?
Polls conducted since the first presidential debate last month put Donald Trump on a pace to earn a smaller percentage of the vote than any major-party nominee in at least 20 years. … For much of the presidential campaign, the focus has been on Trump’s apparent ceiling: He has been […] Read more »
Trump’s Twitter debate lead was ‘swelled by bots’
More than four times as many tweets were made by automated accounts in favour of Donald Trump around the first US presidential debate as by those backing Hillary Clinton, a study found. … The investigation was led by Prof Philip Howard, from the University of Oxford, and is part of a […] Read more »
Will Millennials vote? Poll finds record support for Clinton, but enthusiasm ebbing
Millennials back Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by more than 3-1, a new USA TODAY/Rock the Vote Poll finds, but enthusiasm about voting is dipping as a sharply negative campaign enters its final weeks. CONT. Susan Page & Karina Shedrofsky, USA Today Read more »
Putting post-debate ‘flash polls’ into perspective
Prize fights and Olympic contests have judges, but debates between candidates for public office in the U.S. are ultimately judged by the voters. In the aftermath of presidential debates, there is intense interest in gauging “who won.” How can we know the answer to that question? CONT. Scott Keeter, Pew Read more »