September 02, 2016, 05:06 pm
Polls show tight races in Iowa, Virginia
By Mark Hensch
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by just one point in Virginia, according to a new poll from Emerson College that shows a closer race than other recent surveys.
The Emerson surveys out Friday also find Trump with a five-point lead in the swing state of iowa.
Emerson College’s surveys have consistently found Trump running closer to Clinton than other polls concerning the 2016 race. Some pollsters have questioned the polls’ methodology due to the results relying solely on landline telephone interviews.
Emerson College conducted its latest sampling of 800 likely voters in Virginia via landline telephone interviews from Aug. 30-Sept. 1. It has a 3.4 percent margin of error.
Emerson College sampled 600 likely voters in Iowa, meanwhile, via landline telephone interviews during the same period. It sports a 3.9 percent margin of error.
In the Virginia poll, 44 percent back Clinton compared to 43 percent for Trump. Eleven percent back Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson instead, while 3 percent pick Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
In Iowa, Trump gets 44 percent to Clinton’s 39 percent. Eight percent prefer Johnson, followed by 1 percent who support Stein and 8 percent who are undecided.
Friday’s results found both Clinton and Trump are unpopular with Iowa and Virginia’s voters.
Fifty-six percent of Virginia’s voters view Clinton unfavorably despite having Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) as her running mate. Forty-one percent give her a favorable rating.
Trump scored even worse in the Old Dominion, netting 60 percent unfavorability and 37 percent favorability.
Fifty-eight percent of Iowa’s likely voters, meanwhile, consider Trump unfavorably, contrasted with 37 percent who view the businessman favorably instead.
Clinton lags even further behind Trump, however, earning a 62 percent unfavorability rating and 35 percent favorability rating.
Multiple national polls in recent weeks show the race between Clinton and Trump tightening ahead of this November’s general presidential election.
Clinton leads Trump by about 4 points nationwide, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/294351-polls-show-tight-races-in-iowa-virginia
