Clinton's lead halved in new national poll

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican nominee Donald Trump has been halved in one week in a new national poll.

Clinton leads Trump by 3 points, 43 percent to 40 percent, in a head-to-head match-up in the Morning Consult poll released Sunday morning.

One week ago, Clinton led Trump by 6 points, 44 percent to 38 percent.

Voters view both candidates unfavorably, pollsters found, with 58 percent holding a negative view of Trump and 57 percent saying the same about Clinton.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/293580-clintons-lead-halved-in-new-national-poll

[a kennedy]

1. It's The Hill right??? Ugh......lies.

*keeping fingers crossed* that this is NOT true. How many closet tRump voters are there???

[yeoman6987]

12. I won't care till after Labor Day and the debates

All these polls until then are wind.

[Blue Idaho]

2. Morning Consult Poll?

How accurate are they?

I can't even find them on 538s insanely long list of rated polls...

[PSPS]

4. They say Trump gets 20% in DC, so we can assume it isn't accurate at all.

[still_one]

5. That is right, Nate Silver doesn't even rate it. It is also a national poll.

[Blue Idaho]

6. Not even a national poll?

Releasing results of alleged national polling results? Do I have that right?

[still_one]

8. good point

[PSPS]

3. Not a real poll. Just another meaningless "online poll" used to write a clickbait headline.

[FloridaBlues]

7. Not heard of that poll before, take it with a grain of salt by all others double digit

Sept should give us an interesting cycle with the forums and debates. Hill talking policies and tiny hands lying

[Cryptoad]

9. 538 polls averages still has ,,,,

Hillary up by 6.1 pts in Now-Cast as of today

[ucrdem]

10. Gee who could have predicted that.

A horserace, how exciting and unusual.



I'm betting it won't be a horserace after the first debate no matter what they try to tell us.

[Helen Borg]

20. Unfortunately...

It may stay a horse race because the media wants that. Do you think it's a coincidence that there are so many near 50/50 races these days? It's to keep things interesting. The media can clearly bias the process by deciding what to cover and how much. So, they can keep a race artificially around 50/50 levels until the last minute if they want to.

[salin]

11. We can not become complacent.

Until this election is over, we are in such a strange election season, that we can not ignore what may be anomalous polls. The stakes are too high.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

13. Thanks to the Corporate Media's constant dragging of her and the bullshit false equivalency.

[LenaBaby61]

14. The Morning Consult poll ....

Has to be yet in another long line of JUNK POLLS.

There's no way tRump gets 20% of the vote in Washington DC. NO WAY.

Then there's this from Consult's own page:

"Trump’s outreach to African American voters appears to be falling flat among that demographic, with only 5 percent of black voters saying they will vote for Trump; 79 percent of African American respondents say they will vote for Clinton, with 16 percent undecided."

https://morningconsult.com/2016/08/28/trump-gains-ground-clinton-black-voters-still-wary/

1. 5% of African-Americans voting for tRump when national polling says he'll be lucky to get 2% of African-American voters votes.
2. 16% of the African-American vote is undecided on whether to vote for Hillary or not.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE....


I'm waiting to see better polling in September and beyond.

[triron]

15. Republican polling outfit

So take with a grain of salt

[LenaBaby61]

17. Republican polling outfit....

Oh yeah, I gathered that from going to their web page

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. It's a little weird how you love "bad" Clinton polls

Why?

[onehandle]

18. Good question. nt

[MiniMe]

19. A nationwide poll means absolutely nothing

Only state by state polls mean anything. The only thing that scares me is that 40% of those polled would even consider tRump

[molova]

21. Morning Consult is owned by Republican Michael Ramlet

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512388412

[TheDebbieDee]

22. What new national poll? The article doesn't say which poll this is!

I'm am beginning to buy into the supposition that running campaigns for politicians and politicians that run for office has become the latest new industry!

I really do believe that campaign managers manipulate these candidates into continuing to fund-raise for these campaigns by using these polls to convince candidates (and voters) that these races are closer than they actually are!

Politicians are suckers and so are we voters! It would be nice if Congress could legislate that fundraising could only take place 12 or 18 months prior to any federal election!

[LanternWaste]

23. Your consistency in posting only poll results negative to Clinton is telling, my little friend.

Your consistency in posting only poll results negative to Clinton is telling, my little friend. No doubt, you'll allege your narrative as something completely different than what your consistency thus advertises.