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Poll: Voters More Positive After DNC Than RNC
Monday, August 1, 2016 01:24 PM
By: Cathy Burke
The Democratic Party's convention left a more positive impression on the American public than did the Republican Party's convention, a new poll shows.
The Gallup survey released Monday asked voters if they had a more or less favorable opinion of each party after their conventions, and found that:
Democratic convention: 44 percent were more favorable, 42 were less favorable
Republican convention: 35 percent were more favorable, 52 percent were less favorable.
Asked how the convention would affect their vote for president:
Hillary Clinton: 45 percent more likely to vote for her; 41 percent less likely
Donald Trump: 36 percent more likely to vote for him; 51 percent less likely.
According to Gallup, this year's GOP convention is the first since 1988 after which a greater percentage of Americans have said they're less likely rather than more likely to vote for the party's nominee.
On voters' ratings of each candidate's acceptance speech, the survey found:
Clinton: 44 percent rated it "excellent/good," 17 percent "just OK," 20 percent "poor/terrible"
Trump: 35 percent rated it "excellent/good," 18 percent "just OK," 36 percent "poor/terrible"
Trump's speech was rated less positively than any Gallup has asked about since 1996; the the positive rating of Clinton's speech is slightly below the historical average of 47 percent, the pollster notes.
The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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