Half of Georgians View Trump, Hillary Unfavorably; Trump Up 45%-42%
Hillary Clinton remains within the margin of error of Donald Trump’s lead in Georgia. The con artist has a three-point lead over Clinton taking 45% of the vote to her 42% according to the latest poll from Monmouth University. Gary Johnson has a whopping eight percent of the support of those polled, and only five percent of Georgians are undecided.
Most tellingly, 50% of Georgians view Trump unfavorably and 56% view Clinton unfavorably.
From the press release announcing the poll’s findings:
“There has been some talk of Georgia becoming part of a demographic realignment in presidential politics. However, Clinton is not quite making the needed inroads among young white voters to take the lead here,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. According to the 2008 National Election Pool exit poll, 98% of black voters and 23% of white Monmouth University Polling Institute 9/19/16 2 voters in Georgia supported Obama that year, when he lost the state by 5 points. There was no exit poll in 2012.
Johnny Isakson is predicted to win 50% of the vote to Jim Barksdale’s 34%.
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Eh…. we’ve got 15 Electoral College votes and a race that’s within the MOE… it’s a key state.
Georgia has 16 electoral votes now. Movin’ on up….
Minor Edit: The con artist has a three-point lead over the criminal taking 45% of the vote to her 42% according to the latest poll from Monmouth University.
Sorry, the Teflon criminal
Lesson: If you are going to get away with stuff, it’s better to throw money around and brag about it than to apologize.
Criminals who don’t get convicted (for whatever reason) are still criminals, sir.
I thought you were opposed to name calling?
Maybe this will be the first time since 1996 that neither major party gets a majority in the Peach State. 20 years ago, Dole edged Clinton here by a 1% margin, 47-46 over Clinton (about 27,000 votes separating the two candidates). 1992 was even closer, Clinton leading Bush the first by little over half a percentage point, 43.5% to 42.9% with less than 14,000 votes separating them. Maybe we’ll see something like Trump 49-46% with 5% for Johnson. Bill Clinton got close to a third of the white vote both times in Georgia, and Barnes got that back in his 2002 losing-re-election bid, but it is pretty clear Hillary will not even reach 30% white support this time—if she could do so, she’d likely take the state in November.
Just half? 95% of my circle of friends and neighbors view both unfavorably.