Clinton leads Trump by 11 points in White House race: Reuters/Ipsos poll

[applegrove]

Clinton leads Trump by 11 points in White House race: Reuters/Ipsos poll

By Chris Kahn at Reuters

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0YW287

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Reuters) - Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 11 points in the U.S. presidential race, showing little change after she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday.

The online poll, conducted from Monday to Friday, shows 46 percent of likely voters support Clinton while 34.8 percent back Trump. Another 19.2 percent support neither candidate. Their parties hold conventions in July ahead of a Nov. 8 election.

Clinton's lead was nearly the same a week ago, before she had amassed enough convention delegates to win the nomination and before Trump drew criticism from leaders of both parties for questioning the impartiality of a Mexican-American judge.

Trump, 69, enjoyed a bigger boost after becoming the presumptive Republican nominee in May. Having trailed Clinton, 68, for most of the year, Trump briefly erased a double-digit gap and pulled about even with the former secretary of state.



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[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Dear Gawd don't tell Susan Sarandon

She'll be booking herself on Bill Maher in s hot minute.

[RichGirl]

3. She is one of the oh so smart people...who....

...in 2000 told Democrats to vote for Nader! You know, to make a statement. We got Bush, a war in Iraq, hundreds of thousands dead and a tanked economy. She needs to shut the fuck up!

[RandySF]

2. But someone on YouTube

Said that, according a cousin of a friend with inside knowledge, that she trails by 20%.

[RichGirl]

4. If Hillary is leading now...

...before all the Bernie people join in...then she's doing pretty good!

[First Speaker]

5. Relatively unpopular pols--like Hillary--have been elected President many times...

...Lincoln in 1864, before his assassination, wasn't in particularly good odor among the American people--at least in the North, since obviously the Southerners weren't voting in *that* election. The war was four years old, casualties were mounting, no end seemed in sight, and Lincoln was still regarded by many as a clown in over his head. Then Sherman took Atlanta, and the Dems nominated McClellan on an openly defeatist platform, and Lincoln won re-election. Wilson wasn't very popular in 1916, but won re-election--barely--on a pledge to "keep us out of war". Hah. That led to him being the most hated President in US history by 1920. Truman in 1948 was widely ridiculed as a cheap machine pol, heir to an exhausted New Deal. He won. Nixon? A lot of people had some grudging respect for him, but almost no one trusted him or felt any affection for him. But in the chaos of 1968, he seemed a safe figure--and of course, won in a landslide in 1972 when the Dems ran McGovern. Bush in 1988 was despised the the conservative movement, and snickered at by liberals--but he got past Dukakis. Hillary's relative unpopularity, whether fair or not--and I think it's very unfair--will be no barrier to her winning this year, quite possibly by a landslide.

[cheapdate]

6. Interesting!