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dflprincess

(28,750 posts)
10. Just posted on the Strib's website tonight:
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 09:51 PM
Oct 2016
http://www.startribune.com/in-minnesota-poll-clinton-widens-lead-over-trump/398272671/

In Minnesota Poll, Clinton widens lead over Trump
Minnesota Poll: Her 47-39 edge has grown 2 points since the last survey in September.

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...Clinton leads Trump 47 to 39 percent in the poll of 625 registered Minnesota voters taken after last week’s third and final presidential debate. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson won 6 percent of support, while two other third-party candidates, the Green Party’s Jill Stein and independent conservative Evan McMullin, both drew just 1 percent.

Clinton’s lead over Trump is 2 points larger than in the last Minnesota Poll, in mid-September. She holds a huge lead in the state’s two most populous counties, Hennepin and Ramsey, and has shrunk Trump’s lead in the remaining Twin Cities counties to within the poll’s margin of error. Trump still holds a small lead in outstate Minnesota, but it too shrank since September.

In an important measure of momentum, Clinton seized the lead from Trump among independent voters, a group he had been winning in the previous Minnesota Poll. Only 6 percent of voters are undecided, a sign that people are making up their minds with Election Day just two weeks away.

While she did not break 50 percent, Clinton made gains by nearly every one of the Minnesota Poll’s measures. She leads among voters between ages 18 and 64, with her biggest lead in the 18-34 group; Trump catches up only among voters 65 and older, where the two candidates are tied. Trump is still leading Clinton with male voters, but she wipes that out with a much larger lead among female voters. Clinton is leading with voters who make less than $50,000 a year, while Trump has a smaller lead among voters who earn above that level.


Frankly, I wish it were closer. The only thing that can do her in is people not showing up because they think she has it tied up.

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