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Hilary leads Trump, according to NBC/WSJ latest opinion poll
The survey found that in a two-way race between the two nominees, Clinton leads Trump 52% to 38%, up from a 7-percentage-point lead last month. Hilary Clinton has opened up a 14-percentage-point lead against Donald Trump nationally, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Monday. The survey found that in a two-way race between the two nominees, Clinton leads Trump 52% to 38%, up from a 7-percentage-point lead last month.
In a four-way race involving third-party candidates, Clinton leads Trump by 11 percentage points -- 46% to 35%, up from Clinton’s 6-percentage-point lead in last month’s poll.
A majority of voters, 52%, said the videotape of Trump making lewd comments about women in 2005 that surfaced Friday should be an issue in the campaign while 42% said it shouldn’t be an issue.
Fourteen percent said the videotapes should prompt House and Senate Republicans to call on Trump to drop out of the presidential race and 9 percent said those Republicans should drop their endorsements of Trump.
On the question of congressional preference, Democrats have a 7-percentage-point lead -- 49% to 42%. According to NBC, that’s the Democrats’ biggest advantage since the same question was posed in Oct. 2013, amid the 16-day government shutdown.
The poll comes out on the heels of a House Republican Conference call Monday morning in which Speaker Paul Ryan told his members that he won’t defend Trump anymore and won’t campaign with him and will focus over the next 30 days on keeping the House majority, according to a Republican on the conference call.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is convening a separate conference call, according to Politico.
Since the 11-year-old video of Trump surfaced Friday, 29 Republicans have called for Trump to drop out of the presidential race and 44 Republicans have condemned his remarks, according to a running count by CBS News.
The poll surveyed 500 registered voters between Oct. 8 and 9 with a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points and 4.6 percentage points for all likely voters.
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Oct 11th, 2016 - 06:49 pm +3There is anybody out there that still believe anything parroted by US “mainstream media”?
Oct 11th, 2016 - 12:14 pm +1Is clear to me that given the all out campaign to neutralize Trump, from every shade of the US political spectrum, that he is threatening to upset the status quo politically and economically.
I hope the Wicked witch disintegrates before November.
To be honest I thought Clinton went too easy on Trump considering how badly he'd messed up.
Oct 11th, 2016 - 09:14 pm +1For starters his excuse about it being 'locker room talk' doesn't negate the fact that he:
a. Objectified women
b. Bragged about sexually assaulting women
c. Bragged that he could get away with sexually assaulting women because of his celebrity status
For God's sake he even talked trash about his own daughter! What kind of father would do that?
Trump stated that those 'tapes' weren't the 'real' him...when in fact out of the public eye it showed everyone EXACTLY who he is. Because everyone acts naturally when they believe themselves to be alone or not on view, whereas in the public arena everyone is on their best behaviour.
Yet Clinton just let him walk away from that!
Fortunately for Clinton, Trump still managed to mess up big time, and showed himself to be a petty, small minded individual who is willing to throw law, due process and democracy aside to 'get even' with his nemesis (Clinton).
It will get worse...with more tapes about his crude nature, and even women coming forwards to claim that he assaulted them...and what does Trump do? Just threatens Hillary Clinton and states he is going after Bill Clinton! All of Bill's misdeeds are already in the public eye...so apart from his rabid supporters NO ONE is going to care.
At this rate Hillary will win with such a big majority that the Republican party may resemble the Liberal Democrats in the UK...that is not much in the way of anyone in office.
Regards
LEPRecon
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