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HILLARY CLINTON HAS soared to a 12-point lead over Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to a new poll released today, with the real estate magnate’s support tanking among key voter groups.
The Republican presidential nominee has seen dismal poll numbers since a string of women came forward earlier this month to accuse him of sexual assault or inappropriate behavior in the past.
He has also stirred controversy by refusing to say that he will accept the result of the 8 November election no matter what, calling the process “rigged.”
Clinton, the Democratic former secretary of state, leads 50% to 38% in a four-way contest with two minor party candidates, according to a national ABC News poll.
It was up from Clinton’s four percentage point edge in an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted 10 days ago.
Trump held a small 47-43% lead among white Americans, a group that Republican Mitt Romney won by 20 points in the 2012 election.
Republican candidates must have strong support from white voters if they want to win, with non-white voters overwhelmingly favoring Democratic candidates.
Clinton leads 55-35% among women, and has doubled her lead to 32 points among college-educated white women – a group strongly critical of Trump’s response to allegations of inappropriate behavior.
The poll even showed Clinton leading for the first time among men, 44 to 41% – although that lead is within the poll’s margin of error.
With just over two weeks to go before Election Day, the two White House hopefuls are targeting key battleground states like Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Team Clinton is hoping for a landslide win, even holding out hope of taking back control of at least one of the two houses of Congress from the Republicans.
“We’re not taking anything for granted at all,” campaign manager Robby Mook told Fox News.
Secretary Clinton at the beginning of this campaign said she wanted to help all candidates up and down the ballot. So we’re running a coordinated campaign, working hard with gubernatorial, Senate and House candidates. But we’re not – you know, this is not over yet.
Early voting has begun in several states, and the initial details were positive, Mook said.
We feel very, very good about what we’ve seen so far… And we’re encouraged also by who is turning out.
Trump has tried to change the narrative, outlining his plan for his first 100 days in office yesterday, including a pledge to create 25 million jobs and cut taxes for middle-class Americans.
“The fact is that this race is not over,” Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told Fox News on Sunday, outlining a plan to win crucial battleground states.
He’s not – we’re not giving up. We know we can win this.
Trump’s son Eric said polls don’t reflect the support of people who haven’t been on voter rolls for years but will turn out on Election Day to support the populist candidate.
“I’m so incredibly proud. He’s carried the weight of this country for the last 18 months. I happen to think we’re going to win,” Eric Trump said on ABC.
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Last 4 National Polls:
Rasmussen: Clinton 41 Trump 43
LA Times: Clinton 44 Trump 44
IDB/TIPP: Clinton 41 Trump 43
ABC News: Clinton 50 Trump 38
Whether you like Trump or not, media selectivity in news reports and polling shows why more and more people distrust the media.
It’s hilarious and the fanboys in the journal only love posting these utter nonsense polls.
His goose is cooked
@Robert Burke: the website Pollster aggregates nearly all of the polls (except those clearly inaccurate / biased) and maintains a blended average at the link below. This blend is a good indicator of the mind of the nation:
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-general-election-trump-vs-clinton
“It’s all a conspiracy !!!”… I guess even the bookies are in on it and only Trump supporters know the truth. https://m.oddschecker.com/m/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2016/winner
@Poole Hyde: It’s all rigged! Rigged Bigly against Trump!
Daisy, sure didn’t Billy Bush in collusion with the MSM orchestrate the whole smear campaign against Trump years ago.
@bopster I use real clear politics who post every poll from reputable polling agencies. IDB/TIPP was the most accurate poll in the last 2 election cycles.
I’m glad you trust the Huffington post to give you unbiased news and only choose the unbiased polls.
Brent Budowsky of the Huffington Post colluding with the campaign on how to attack trump https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1343
Ryan Grim of Huffington Post seeking authorisation from the Clinton Campaign team for a story on Clinton and TPP https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26655
Bob Creamer the DNC official who had to step down after being stung in a Project Veritas expose where he was telling the investigative Journalist how they conduct voter fraud also works for the Huffington Post.
The Podesta Emails have shown collusion between multiple supposed news organisations not just in planting stories against Trump but during the Democratic primaries where they did the same to Sanders.
‘Tinfoil hats 5 for 50!’ – MSM conspiracy,snore. Trump has lost and the months of alt-right waffle has been a hilarious waste of time. Get over it,Hilary has won.
@Tariq ibn Ziyad:
Do you not believe that MSM is reporting selectively Tariq?
Journal should have read #podesta emails 16 wikileaks. Very interesting when it comes to polls.
@Robert Burke:
Quite right Robert. The latest 2hr. ago averaged poll shows Donald Trump behind by a one digit 6% .This ,in effect means only 3% plus 1 vote as that is all it would take for Donald Trump to swing it and win it.
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—National Polling Average
Including Gary Johnson
Hillary Clinton
46.3%
Donald J. Trump
40.1%
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/polls.html?_r=0
Trump denies reality. His supporters deny reality. It’s becoming amusing is a petty way.
@robert bourke LOL – you cherry-pick the only 3 pro-Trump results of the dozens done since the last debate and call the Journal biased.
Yeah because look how the bookies made great calls on the brexit result and the last uk general election. Not!
@backuptron – I didn’t handpick anything, I posted the results of the last 4 national polls which had been conducted since the last debate and asked the question why the only poll which showed Clinton in the lead by a large margin was chosen for an entire article.
CONFIRMED: Pollsters Loading Polls with Democrats to Give Hillary a Lead Over Trump
Donald Trump shattered the previous GOP primary record by 1.4 million votes this year — and that was with 17 candidates in the race!
Hillary Clinton received 1.5 million fewer votes this year than she did in 2008 – when she lost!
Trump continues to sell out venue after venue.
Hillary can’t fill a high school gymnasium this week without hauling in high school kids to sit in the stands.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/new-polls/
The money and media establishment backed by their Open-Border Extremist friends like billionaire Soros and far-left thugs on the street are going all out to enslave the ordinary people of America. It is globalism vs nationalism, the corporates vs the people.
One referendum out of 100′s held internationally every year is not a trend nor does Trump winning 50.1% of the popular vote mean he’s won the election. He needs a virtually unwinnable amount of electoral college votes. He needs to over turn traditionally blue states AFTER voting has already begun. It’s not a case of scraping across the line like Brexit.
eye..I actually feel sorry for his kids. They are actually good business people..but who will do business with them after this? only the russians.
@Poole Hyde: I would remind you that in advance of the Brexit vote the bookies had the remain side in front.
Bookies take into account the amount of money being betted. In the case of Brexit more money was being wagered on the remain side, however when it came to individual bets it turned out that many more smaller bets were being placed on the leave vote.
It would be interesting to see what this situation is in the US – i.e. money amounts versus the number of individual bets.
@Jamie Rod:
Joey: You don’t know what these numbers told you. I’m an expert, and I don’t know what these numbers just told you.
Josh: Numbers don’t lie.
Joey: They lie all the time.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/numbers-lie-all-the-time-how-political-polls-work/
Patrick, please stick around on November 9th. I will want to read what you have to say then.
@jenni: Its amazing what bs people will believe. zero evidence of any link between Russia and Trump, but plenty of evidence of Podesta and the Russians as well as Hillary okaying uranium deals to the Russians
Also, this poll result is the first to be done completely after the final debate so is the most recent. Good article on early voting trends http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-trump-may-depress-republican-turnout-spelling-disaster-for-the-gop/
Dublinlad…. you probably don’t.
Trump and his supporters don’t do reality.
She has it won. Not a fan of her myself. But she is million times better then the alternative. But call a spade a spade republicans have themselves to blame stoking the Obama hate for 8 years. Come home to roost now so it could take them another 8 to have a decent shot again
@Robert Burke:
Another handy site that’s popular with Canadian analysts:
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
Great site and a simple solution. Amazing how wild the swings are with some of the more biased/party polls
Fivethirtyeight is definitely the best. Also Robert, at least the Rasmussen poll you selected wasn’t conducted after the final debate. It was conducted the day before, the day of and the day after and therefore the majority of it was done before the debate.
Type ‘Hillary Clinton’ in the journal.ie search bar and you’re only going to get articles on Donald Trump. The whole media coverage is a farce.
Donald trumps biggest problem is the media reporting what he says and has said. Funny part is him saying I didn’t say that right after saying it
@Les McQueen: You’re right les i think we should examine how an irish website, the journal, is influencing the american election. If i was you i’d call someone.
Apropos of nothing thanks be that the Irish as a whole (though not representative here) are a well-informed group of people in comparison to our easily worked up american cousins – we do not have extremists here – yet… and we can smell BS… and there is a big whiff from these elections.
Isn’t that exactly what Turnip was bragging about getting.$2bn dollars worth of free media exposure ?
I’m well aware that we have no say but a bit of fairness wouldn’t go astray. Hillary could grab a baby from the crowd, put some salt and pepper on it and devour it whole and the media will report that Donald was leering at her arse as she did it.
Well Les, maybe next time he won’t threaten “to go after them” while his idiot supporters chant “jail them”.
@Les McQueen: That’s rubbish and you know it. The media in general are ok – but come one if Trump was an irish politician he’d never get elected to a local community group – i have met no-one who thinks Trump should be president – and all the bad things that have happened are because of what he has said himself.
For those of us old enough we have fond memories of the clintons because of the peace process.. sin e – Ireland has always been a fan of the democrats because tehy are the most similar to our values – and so perhaps the media reflects this – and people in ireland know about Hilary and you know what ? they don’t really care. Its the show we are all watching – we don’t have a vote in it.
Much like the hatred of Obama the stuff with clinton is totally over the top these rabid young lads chomping at the bit way more then they would over say a Tim Kaine or a bill clinton.. it belies something deeper and you know what it is ? one is racism the other is misogyny…
@Old Gabby Johnson: In my Grandparents house were two pictures on the wall – JFK and teh Pope. JFK makes Bill Clinton look like a choirboy.. the irish love affair with the democrats goes back to tammany hall.
@Old Gabby Johnson:
Ah shure wasn’t JFK a saint?
@Joe: Trumo is the opposite of a saint.
@Micheal OLainn:
Hillary is a saint, in no way did she defend Bill’s rape and attack the victims, she definitely did not laugh at the circumstances in a case involving the horrific rape of a 12 yr old child. And she certainly did not threaten war with Russia bringing the whole world to nuclear war.
HILLARY FOR PRISON
Poole, so true.
Dublinlad.. for the republican candidate for presidency not even to have the full backing of Fox News is baffling. Normally they’d be the ones tearing into Clinton as if their lives depended on it instead they’re more concerned with saving the GOP. At the moment they could loose the seat for Missouri… MISSOURI for crying out loud!!! That’s like the Shankill Rd voting SF.
Trump relies on the gullible for their gullibility.
Can Trump win? Never underestimate the unpredictability of stupidity
Hello the most accurate poll has Trump a head
http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/10/most-accurate-poll-trump-leads-hillary-by-1/
While the second highest regarded Rasmussen polls has them tied. Sorry to burst your bubble guys.
Shame on you Journal everyone can see clearly whats going on and your rag is part of the problem. Its like North Korea or something where people only get told what the ruling party want you to hear. Embarassed for anyone calling themselves journalists in todays world
@frash:“Most voters aren’t buying the story that the Russians are trying to manipulate the election for Trump but think the U.S. media is trying to swing things for Clinton,” the pollster said.
Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/10/most-accurate-poll-trump-leads-hillary-by-1/#QlTwtEAdgOHPfhHt.99
@frash: You’re right – only the polls that have trump ahead are to be believed – and websites that espouse Trumpian (word?) views.
Now lets all celebrate with a nice glass of turnip juice.
Shake harder boy!
I agree frash, journalists and broadcasters in Ireland should be ashamed of themselves. All we get is a daily dose of anti Trump rubbish and total silence on the avalanche of stuff about the wrongdoing of Hillary Clinton. Journalism and broadcasting have been demeaned and belittled by their lack of objectivity and in some cases basic honesty. Newstalk is by far the worst offender but of course we all know who is dictating the agenda there.
Surely you guys canny be serious??!! It’s an American election and you are well able to gather newsworthy food for your fragile minds from any other source you please!
@Gavin Scott:
The issue for most Gavin is that the major media sites both here in Europe and in the US hold a pretty obvious bias in favour of Clinton. The Clinton emails, DNC emails and Project Veritas revelations show blatant corruption and vote rigging within the “Democratic” Party yet there’s barely any mention of this in the media.
Any other candidate’s campaign would have been dead in the water by now.
Trump is not experienced enough for the role. He’s a disaster. Why would the status quo take such a huge risk on such an unlikeable character? Of course attrition sways the result towards a certain outcome. Media is part of this. We can all do without another Brexit-type disaster.
It would require a special kind of foolishness to vote for Trump.
Unfortunately that foolishness isn’t in short supply among his supporters
@Alex Jones: WND as a source??? Must be legit so.. lol
She’s gonna win Bigly.
Ain’t it a beautiful thing
@Old Gabby Johnson: It’d be funny if he’d actually said that.
He did.. he said big league the second time after being ridiculed. On the 2nd debate he said big league and smirked after it.
Sorry about that.
couldnt happen to a nicer fella :D
MainstreAm media polls what a joke.just like the brexit vote you got some shock when the vote count came in.
Hopefully they are looking at Brexit and the unmitigated clusterfu#k that’s turned into.
Why do Trump supporters think that just because of Brexit,every single poll that comes out from now until the end of time is going to be inaccurate? Polling is not an exact science,sometimes it’s wrong (marginally),most of the time it’s right.
It’s more like the SSM referendum here where Iona etc had lost weeks out and were desperately trying to convince themselves that there were hidden supporters buried somewhere, that the polls were wrong or that personal attacks were actually an argument. Anyway by Trumps own admission the election “is rigged” so I guess there’s no reason to bother voting for him anyway.
@Poole Hyde:
It was clear to anyone that the “SSM” was going to end up the way it did, there was a mass hysteria similar to the grief-fest surrounding Diana Spencer’s death. It was there for all to see except those that wanted to delude themselves.
The self delusion in this election is by those who will not see the biased media or that the race is much closer than it appears. And yes there is a shy Trump constituency, the same as there was a shy leave vote in the UK referendum.
Hey, the GOP threw independent media in the US under a bush decades ago and The Journal are under no obligation to be unbiased especially when it’s Trump pushing himself into the limelight so much. He wanted this during the primaries thinking there was no such thing as bad publicity. Now that it’s over for him and he’s off back to reality TV land it’s everyone else’s fault that he couldn’t play the game. Imagine what really good/devious politicians would do with a naive idiot like Trump on the world stage. The most basic of all political skills is to get the media on side and to try and control the narrative. It’s politics 101 and he couldn’t even do that right. The guy’s a joke.
@Poole Hyde:
Of course the Journal has no obligation to be unbiased but if it wants to be taken seriously it should be impartial or at least truthful.
You have declared Hillary elected already!
it’s not over ’till it’s over.
That’s the spirit.. You keep believing. You hang in there buddy..
Trump will not be elected US President. Wishing that he will be elected does not make it so.
@Poole Hyde:
Well the Hillary factor is strong. Personally I would not be a supporter of Trump but I am certainly anti Hillary. I can’t understand how anyone can vote for such a vile person as her.
@Joe:
All Donald Trump supporters will turn out for the actual vote.
The Clintonites will be less enthusiastic. To what extent is anyone’s guess-my guess is more than enough to sink Hillary.
And remember, Hilary Clinton is the women who brought TTIP to the global table.
The voice of corporate America.
Is the women? Hmmm. People are either literate or a Trumpanzee. Never both. Odd isn’t it?
@JJ O Riordan:
Nobody cares if a comment ticks every grammatical box or not. Try rebutting the content.
@JJ O Riordan:
Petty JJ. even by your standards.
( keep up the good work)
Is anybody else watching the current series of South Park ?
I would recommend it. They have the election to a t.
If you dont know , South Park episodes are made weekly, and finished sometimes just hours before they are broadcast. So they are bang up to date. They are ripping on Trump big time.
@Ace: I’m voting for the giant turd.
I’m a big fan of South Park but I’m surprised they’re not ripping into Hillary as much as they’re ripping into Trump… they’re usually don’t pick sides in their satire.
Also the Douche/Turd thing is a rehash from 10 yrs ago, they should have came up with something fresh
@John Byrne: Good man “John” – pop reference that;s good.. If you think southpark is soft on Hillary you’re not a fan of southpark.
Oh ya, I member
John doesn’t understand false equivalence. One candidate is a politiowith a history as checkered as any politician and the other is not a politician at all but he’s aiming for one of the top political jobs in the world. If it was two CV’s for a job interview he wouldn’t even get a call.
Still time for one more news cycle of a Trump comeback. It’s never going to happen of course but the media has to pretend it’s a race.
“Most voters aren’t buying the story that the Russians are trying to manipulate the election for Trump but think the U.S. media is trying to swing things for Clinton,” the pollster said.
Teehee… The media are shooting themselves in head with tripe like this.
@Alex Jones:
What they won’t mention is that the average American now trusts Congress more than they do the media. Think about that for a second, people are so sick of the biased media coverage that they think politicians are more honest.
Trumps leads Hillary in some recent polls. Don’t underestimate the stop Hillary factor.
“according to a national ABC News poll”
According to the LA Times Poll, trump is ahead.
44.4% Trump
44.1% Clinton
http://graphics.latimes.com/usc-presidential-poll-dashboard/
But then again, Its very easy to find a poll to reflect your own bias – Polls for the most part or nonsense, the only poll that matters is election day.
Lets hope they can find enough dead people and illegals to vote for Killary’s sake.
Selective reporting from thejournal yet again. Someone is going to come up with a non bias alternative to your website and they will win the day.
Awww. Poor Eamonn. The little Trumpanzee in you getting angry?
@Eamonn Hughes: No news outlet is obliged to remain unbiased towards a tax dodging, joke candidate creep like Trump.
Gropin Don losing in the polls big league. SAD
Ginger skinned, groping Don. Poor lad.
I’m pretty sure he was Ronsealed at some point.
Either that or auditioned for Geordie Shore.
@Poole Hyde:
At least Ronseal does exactly what it says on the tin! Trump on the other hand…….
Considering trump fills sports stadium/concert arenas with 15,000, 20,000 people and she can’t even fill university basketball gym’s, plus she cancelled one today due to lack of interest… have a look at this video. . The video paints the real story.. the polls are rigged.. if she wins the election is rigged no doubt.. https://youtu.be/A4K56KaJ7Ds
If crowds showing up were an indication of who’s going to win then the local Ikea would be next president. Trump has groupies who follow him from place to place. It’s pretty pathetic but hey, at least they get to hear a different set of policies, denials and attacks at every show.
@Jay Murphy: It doesn’t matter how hard you support someone, your vote counts the same if you love Trump as it does if you are just voting for Hillary are the lesser of 2 evils.
@Jay Murphy: I think more people are going to vote for her than for Trump, not because she’s great or charismatic, but because she’s less of a risk than the alternative. If you feel like that you’re not going to show up at any stadium like a One Direction fan.
@Jay Murphy: Hear hear jay. Anyone for 15 year old Actress, with scripted question for Hillary?. It`s so ridiculous and blatantly obvious, I had to laugh. https://youtu.be/ftf0wwpkl9k (Blinkers on Clinton fan boys n girls).
T-R-U-M-P
We’re gonna Trump
Hillary
Whatever Trump is he isn’t abortion crazy like the other one.
@O’Callaghan Stephen: You first.
Of course it does , same polls that put brexit to remain
@stephen, Trump is older and clearly in worse health. I think we’re both aware of who’s more likely to take ill.
Stephen such hatred of women.. Freud would have a field day. He’d probably start with how your mom rejected you or didn’t hold you enough… ah oedipus complex the main ingredient in being a trumpian – that and penis envy. Small hands and all that.
@O’Callaghan Stephen: Keep working yourself up there, lad. Any angry, frothy spittle forming? Any veins popping as you turn purple with impotent rage? With any luck, you’ll have that heart attack you wished on Clinton.
I’d still rather Clinton than that Trump mug!
@O’Callaghan Stephen: Moron, the kitchen is also where the knives and bleach are stored.
Way to disprove the angry man there steve. Lol… btw who is doctor phil?
The plot thickens… so you are telling a woman to get back into the kitchen and you are a former woman and you’re advocating for a guy who encourages to grope women?? Riiiiiggghhht. Alrighy then.
@Old Gabby Johnson:
“who doesnt sexually assault women”
That would seem to rule Hillary out then, Old Gabby, if Cathleen Ann O’Brien is to be believed.
Hillary’s going to win and win big. It’s a done deal. The only real faux pas she had this election was saying 50% of Trump supporters are a basket of deplorables. It’s closer to 100%. They are ignorant, filthy, backward vermin. Truth.
@O’Callaghan Stephen: Is that why you refer to yourself as one on facebook?
Jesus christ – Its a presidential election not two gorillas foghting over leadership of a the tribe of monkeys.. we’re humans (well most us) and we go for the most intelligent or at least qualified- who doesnt sexually assault women or want to bang their daughters.. what age are you ? 16?
@O’Callaghan Stephen: Where do you buy your testosterone?
The GOP thought it was so easy to bear Clinton that a monkey would do it
What’s Gary Johnson’s support like?
Sad day for America. Trump is no great choice but a money mad lunatic will only mean more wars and useless killing.
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