Get ready for a wild polling ride
'There’s every reason to believe that there is huge instability in the current electorate,' says one prominent pollster.
By Steven Shepard
09/06/16 06:28 PM EDT
The nine-week, post-Labor Day sprint to Election Day began Tuesday with a muddle of new poll results that confirm only one thing: Hillary Clinton no longer owns the commanding lead she held a month ago.
A CNN/ORC International poll generated the most headlines Tuesday. The survey found Donald Trump ahead by 2 points nationally among likely voters — the first live-interview poll in six weeks to show Trump in the lead.
Clinton fared better in other new polls. A Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll, conducted over virtually the same time period, showed Clinton leading by 3 points. The most recent weekly wave of the NBC News/SurveyMonkey tracking poll, conducted over the internet, showed Clinton’s lead over Trump holding steady at 6 points. And state-level SurveyMonkey data compiled for The Washington Post gives Clinton the edge in the Electoral College.
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