CNN/ORC poll: Clinton tops Trump on presidential traits

If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the respective front-runners in the race for the Democratic and Republican nominations for president, wind up leading their respective parties into the general, voters nationwide think Clinton would most likely win in the November election, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, […] Read more »

Republicans in Bloomberg Poll Not Sold on Plan to Stop Trump

The most committed Republican voters aren’t rallying behind efforts to deny Donald Trump the party’s nomination at their national convention in July, but he still faces an uphill climb after that. A Bloomberg Politics national poll shows 63 percent of those who have voted in this year’s Republican primaries and […] Read more »

Is There a Health Care Vote? More for Democrats and Women than Other Groups

Health care is one of many issues that will be important for voters in the presidential election, particularly for Democrats and women, finds the March Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. More than a third (36%) of voters consider health care “extremely important” to their vote in this year’s presidential election, ranking […] Read more »

Most Republicans Feel Embarrassed by Campaign, Poll Says

Alarmed by the harsh attacks and negative tone of their presidential contest, broad majorities of Republican primary voters view their party as divided and a source of embarrassment and think that the campaign is more negative than in the past, according to a New York Times/CBS News national poll released […] Read more »