Poll: Clinton Leads Trump By 10 Points

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A new national poll released Friday shows Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by ten points nationally.

Clinton is ahead of Trump 50 percent to 40 percent in a head-to-head match-up, according to a poll commissioned by End Citizens United, a liberal-leaning public interest group working to rid large money from politics.

In a four-way race with Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Clinton's lead is reduced to eight points. Clinton receives 45 percent to Trump's 37 percent. Johnson polls at eight percent and Stein at four percent.

As concerns grow about Trump's drag on Republicans running down ballot, this poll shows there's reason for concern. Democrats lead Republicans when asked which party they' d vote for in a Congressional race by seven points: 48 - 41 percent.

http://www.nbcnews.com/card/poll-clinton-leads-trump-10-points-n633871

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1. I would feel a lot more comfortable...

if there was more consistency in these polls.

Love this one - just need more like it to establish a permanent 8-10 point barrier. Hmm...what would you call a barrier like that?

[Loki Liesmith]

2. The polls are consistent

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10. I know they're consistently in Clinton's favor...

just would like them all to be 8 pts or more, and not one today at 4, then 10, then 1, then 9, etc.

[Stubborn]

9. I would feel a lot more comfortable if it were 10/19 instead of 8/19. nt

[Bucky]

3. I've been a Democrat a long time. I'm still kinda waiting for us to blow this.

is there a syndrome name for this condition?

[fun n serious]

5. I think we have PTSD from losing to Bush.

We run scared. A lot of damage was done to our country because of that close election.

[AgadorSparticus]

12. That's the truth. I was so depressed after that and it was just a nightmare under him.

Dark times it was....

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Polls have been static

No polls have shown significant tightening. It's just the last several polls are all the right leaning ones that didn't ever show a big Clinton lead. When the next set of the major polls come out we'll see. WSJ, CBS, even FOX, or Marist.

[bluestateguy]

6. Cautiously good news

but how seriously will that be taken given that it was a liberal group that commissioned the poll?

[Democat]

7. Most polls are done by the right wing media

And that same right wing media takes those polls very seriously.

[Doctor Jack]

8. They paid a polling organization to do it for them

They likely didnt do it themselves. You and I could commission a poll, as long as we had the money. We would pay a company to do it for us

[Wounded Bear]

11. I like the 50% number....

That's kind of a holy grail of campaigns. You don't always see that number in the polls, usually it's in the 40's. I like it.