Clinton opens up 9-point national lead in CNN poll

[mystery-ak]

August 01, 2016, 05:41 pm
Clinton opens up 9-point national lead in CNN poll

By Ben Kamisar

A new CNN/ORC poll released Monday gives Hillary Clinton a 9-point lead over Donald Trump, suggesting the Democratic presidential nominee won a significant bump from last week’s Democratic National Convention.

Clinton is ahead by a margin of 52 percent to 43 percent in a head-to-head match-up, a 7-point bump from CNN/ORC’s last poll.

When the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein are added in, Clinton leads Trump, the GOP nominee, 45 percent to 37 percent.

It’s the second major poll released since the convention to show a bounce for Clinton. A CBS poll found she held a 7-point lead over Trump after the convention, a 4-point shift in her favor.

The CNN poll underscores Trump’s problems in winning over non-white voters, as he trails not only Clinton but Johnson and Stein with minority voters.

Seventy percent of non-white voters back Clinton, 8 percent back each Johnson and Stein, and 7 percent back Trump.

Forty-four percent of Clinton supporters say they would not change their minds before Election Day, while 36 percent of Trump supporters say the same.

She also boosted the number of Americans who believe her policies are a shift in the right direction — 43 percent feel that way before the Democratic convention, while 48 believe so now.

While Trump briefly led Clinton in RealClearPolitics’s averages of both the one-on-one and the four-way race in the GOP convention’s aftermath, Clinton has snatched control of the lead after her convention.

The findings of the CNN poll would keep Johnson and Stein on the outside looking in at this fall’s debates.

Third-party candidates must get 15 percent of the vote to make the debate stage.

Johnson gets 9 percent in the new CNN poll, while Stein secures 5 percent.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/290056-clinton-opens-up-nine-point-national-lead-in-cnn-poll

[Gov Bean Counter]

The difference between a bounce and a thud.

[cato potatoe]

The CNN poll underscores Trump’s problems in winning over non-white voters, as he trails not only Clinton but Johnson and Stein with minority voters.

Seventy percent of non-white voters back Clinton, 8 percent back each Johnson and Stein, and 7 percent back Trump.

The trumpkins ignored the 2012 autopsy and nominated a flaming racist.  They deserve Hillary.

[NavyCanDo]

Trump: I don't think GOP has to be united

Trump: This Is the Republican Party, It's Not Called the Conservative Party

Trump: I Have Principles, Don't Need Conservatives to Support Me

He has been telling us all along he doesn't care about party unity. How's that working out for ya, Donald?

[Jazzhead]

Trump's going down,  and it's mainly his own damn fault,  getting sidetracked  by petty feuds (with a Gold Star family!), and unwilling to listen to advice.

The Trumpsters may have thought they had a message that'd caught a national mood,   and perhaps they have,  but the self-absorbed messiah they've installed as their messenger has proven horribly incompetent and insensitive.

But the worst of it is his Russian connections.    If he's got Russian money financing his real estate empire because American banks won't touch it,  he's got a yawning conflict of interest in serving as President.   He's said not a word about putting his assets into a blind trust; the decisions he makes regarding relations with Russia will impact his commercial interests.   

That's simply intolerable,  and in fact gives him a plausible excuse to drop out of the race in favor of Pence. 

 

[Gov Bean Counter]

Trump's going down,  and it's mainly his own damn fault,  getting sidetracked  by petty feuds (with a Gold Star family!), and unwilling to listen to advice.

The Trumpsters may have thought they had a message that'd caught a national mood,   and perhaps they have,  but the self-absorbed messiah they've installed as their messenger has proven horribly incompetent and insensitive.

But the worst of it is his Russian connections.    If he's got Russian money financing his real estate empire because American banks won't touch it,  he's got a yawning conflict of interest in serving as President.   He's said not a word about putting his assets into a blind trust; the decisions he makes regarding relations with Russia will impact his commercial interests.   

That's simply intolerable,  and in fact gives him a plausible excuse to drop out of the race in favor of Pence.

This information has been out there for anyone willing to look. I tried on another site and it didn't go over well.

[Jazzhead]

This information has been out there for anyone willing to look. I tried on another site and it didn't go over well.

Trump's inherent conflict of interest is serious stuff.  So much so that he needs to release his tax returns so folks can see who's financing his businesses.   Recent Presidents have used the device of a blind trust, but that's not practical for Trump.   

The time has come to bring pressure to bear to get him to relinquish his candidacy in favor of Pence.    His screw-up with the Khans is going to crush him in the polls,  but a financial conflict of interest in dealing with Russia is something that gives GOP leaders an existential reason to urge him tp step aside.  In the end,  Trump will want to keep control of his empire.