On Election Day’s eve, latest polls point in similar direction
11/07/16 08:40 AM
By Steve Benen
The day before Election Day 2012, national polling gave President Obama a lead over Mitt Romney of about a single percentage point, leading to speculation about one of the closest races in American history. The truth was less dramatic: Obama ended up winning the popular vote by nearly 4 points, outpacing his polling advantage.
Four years later, Hillary Clinton is hoping to see something similar – since the day ahead of Election Day 2016, she’s in slightly better shape than the president was in 2012.
Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a four-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of the 2016 presidential race.
Clinton gets support from 44 percent of likely voters, while Trump gets 40 percent, the poll shows. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson is at 6 percent, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein is at 2 percent.
There’s quite a bit of fresh data available, and nearly all of it points in a similar direction. The final NBC News/SurveyMonkey tracking poll shows Clinton with a six-point lead (47% to 41%); the last Washington Post/ABC News tracking poll shows Clinton up by four (47% to 43%); the final Bloomberg Politics poll shows Clinton up by three (44% to 41%); the final CBS News poll shows Clinton ahead by four (45% to 41%); and the final Fox News poll shows Clinton leading by two (45% to 43%). Note, each of these polls were conducted before FBI Director James Comey cleared Clinton (again) of wrongdoing in the email controversy.
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