PDA

View Full Version : Fox News Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 10 points, both seen as flawed



Teh One Who Knocks
08-04-2016, 10:45 AM
By Dana Blanton - FOX News


http://i.imgur.com/HrrgkKv.jpg

Sixty-one percent of voters think Hillary Clinton is dishonest, yet she’s opened up a big lead over Donald Trump in the latest Fox News Poll.

Here’s why: majorities think Clinton is nevertheless qualified to be president, and has the temperament and knowledge to serve effectively. It’s the opposite for Trump: over half feel he is not qualified, and lacks the temperament or knowledge to lead the country. And his 62 percent dishonesty rating tops hers.

After the conventions, the Clinton-Kaine ticket leads the Trump-Pence ticket by 10 points (49-39 percent) in the race for the White House. Clinton’s advantage is outside the poll’s margin of error. A month ago, Clinton was up by six points (44-38 percent, June 26-28).

http://i.imgur.com/NqLYiATl.jpg

This is the first time the Fox News Poll included running mates. Trump announced his vice presidential pick of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence July 15. Clinton told supporters she’d picked Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine July 22.

Since last month, Clinton’s position is improved with most groups, as she gained ground among men, women, whites, Democrats, young voters, and seniors.

The Democrat is winning among the so-called “Obama coalition,” the key voting blocs that secured his re-election. Clinton is favored among women by 23 points (57-34 percent), blacks by 83 (87-4 percent), Hispanics by 48 (68-20 percent), and voters under 30 by 18 (49-31 percent).

Those numbers rival Barack Obama’s performance among those groups against Mitt Romney in 2012, when he won among women by 11 points (55-44 percent), blacks by 87 (93-6 percent), Hispanics by 44 (71-27 percent), and voters under 30 by 23 (60-37 percent).

Trump is the choice among whites by 10 points (49-39 percent), men by 5 (45-40 percent), white evangelical Christians by 50 (69-19 percent), and whites without a college degree by 16 (52-36 percent).

Right now he’s underperforming his 2012 counterpart. Romney won whites by 20 points (59-39 percent), men by 7 (52-45 percent), white evangelicals by 57 (78-21 percent), and whites without a degree by 26 (62-36 percent).

Trump bests Clinton among veterans by 53-39 percent.

Twelve percent of Republicans back Clinton. That’s more than double the number of Democrats supporting Trump (five percent). And while Clinton garners more support among Democrats (87 percent) than Trump does among Republicans (78 percent), she trails among independents. They go for the Republican by 41-33 percent. In 2012, independents went for Romney by 50-45 percent.

http://i.imgur.com/XaaSnYcl.jpg

More Clinton supporters say their vote is for her rather than against Trump (49-47 percent). Among Trump supporters, a majority says their vote is better described as being against Clinton (52 percent), while less than half are voting because they like him (44 percent).

When Libertarians Gary Johnson and Bill Weld are included in the hypothetical vote, they receive 12 percent, while Clinton takes 44 percent to Trump’s 35 percent. They siphon off support about equally from both the Democratic and GOP tickets.

Qualified to be president? Sixty-five percent say Clinton is vs. 43 percent Trump. Fifty-eight percent feel he isn’t qualified, including 45 percent who say “not at all.”

http://i.imgur.com/HigJQBgl.jpg

On temperament, 64 percent say Clinton has it. Just 37 percent say Trump does. And 72 percent think Clinton has the knowledge to serve effectively, while 40 percent say the same for Trump.

The poll finds a couple things that could bode well for the incumbent party, most notably a positive rating for the president. A 52-percent majority approves of the job Barack Obama’s doing as president. Forty-five percent disapprove. Those are his best marks since May 2011, soon after U.S. forces killed Usama bin Laden, when 55 percent approved and 41 percent disapproved.

In addition, more voters feel they are getting ahead financially (35 percent) than have felt that way in nearly a decade.

There are also findings that could help Trump. Most voters say they are either just able to pay bills (49 percent) or are falling behind (14 percent). In addition, 55 percent remains dissatisfied with the direction of the country. Those unhappy voters prefer Trump by 62-23 percent, which makes sense considering 84 percent of Republicans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country.

Poll-pourri

After emails published online showed the Democratic National Committee favored Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the nomination process, 37 percent of Democrats think their party’s primary process was rigged in favor of Clinton. That jumps to 56 percent among all voters, and 61 percent among those who preferred Sanders over Clinton as the party’s nominee.

Some 37 percent of Sanders supporters think he would have won if the primaries had been fair.

Republicans are still divided over their party’s nominee: 50 percent are happy with Trump, while 49 percent would rather have someone else.

Finally, 77 percent of voters are familiar with the exchange between Trump and the parents of a Muslim-American soldier who died while serving in Iraq. Some 69 percent of them describe Trump’s criticism of the Khan family as “out of bounds.” Among Republicans, 40 percent think his response was “in bounds,” while 41 percent say “out of bounds,” and 19 percent are unsure.

The Fox News poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,022 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from July 31-August 2, 2016. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all registered voters.

deebakes
08-04-2016, 01:31 PM
:rip:

Hugh_Janus
08-04-2016, 06:21 PM
:popcorn:

also, I don't envy you lot having to choose between these two bellends :lol:

Teh One Who Knocks
08-04-2016, 06:44 PM
There are reports now that Mitt Romney, among other bigger name republicans, will come out and endorse Gary Johnson for President.

PorkChopSandwiches
08-04-2016, 06:56 PM
I wouldn't mind him, I voted for him last time around

Godfather
08-04-2016, 07:03 PM
Hillary is so obviously a terrifying choice given her corruption, being in the pockets of half the Fortune 500, mishandling of classified info, arming ISIS (if you chose to believe those reports, which look pretty true)

Then you go and read about the kind of guy Trump is, how his ego makes him hold grudges and lose his temper, stories of him asking why we can't use Nukes, the report the other day that he bragged about classified info on Iran just a day after being given a security clearance, how he spends all his waking hours when not working just watching the News and getting irate when he's slighted... Being President is a mammoth task that takes real diplomacy. I'm absolutely not convinced a CEO with a hot head is right for being leader of the Free World, even if he has strong, mostly good ideas that really speak to a lot of people...

All you can do as an outside observer is :popcorn:

PorkChopSandwiches
08-04-2016, 07:08 PM
Hillary is so obviously a terrifying choice given her corruption, being in the pockets of half the Fortune 500, mishandling of classified info, arming ISIS (if you chose to believe those reports, which look pretty true)

Then you go and read about the kind of guy Trump is, how his ego makes him hold grudges and lose his temper, stories of him asking why we can't use Nukes, the report the other day that he bragged about classified info on Iran just a day after being given a security clearance, how he spends all his waking hours when not working just watching the News and getting irate when he's slighted... Being President is a mammoth task that takes real diplomacy. I'm absolutely not convinced a CEO with a hot head is right for being leader of the Free World, even if he has strong, mostly good ideas that really speak to a lot of people...

All you can do as an outside observer is :popcorn:

Don't forget all the money she has received from foreign countries that are depending on her win to "pay them back" at the expense of the American people.

I'm fairly sure wikileaks will be presenting emails soon that will show we were arming ISIS through Benghazi, which is why nothing was done to prevent the issue

deebakes
08-04-2016, 07:24 PM
go gary johnson :woot:

Godfather
08-04-2016, 07:25 PM
Don't forget all the money she has received from foreign countries that are depending on her win to "pay them back" at the expense of the American people.

I'm fairly sure wikileaks will be presenting emails soon that will show we were arming ISIS through Benghazi, which is why nothing was done to prevent the issue

Oh I'm not forgetting... she's a crooked criminal warlord...

But that doesn't mean I think Trump's persona is fit for office whatsoever :lol: Maybe if he was someon's V.P. he'd make a great addition, but giving that guy the powers of President with his ego and self-absorption are really startling too aren't they?

know people like his ideas (myself included to some degree) and he's a polarizing figure who's lovable to many... but if you don't have doubts about him being stable enough to lead the Nation I dono... He's going from a company with 22,000 employees to an entire country of 360 million, and has no experience working a political system. Being CEO isn't easy, but it's also starkly different from working within the confines of national and international politics.

Muddy
08-04-2016, 08:29 PM
Clintons got health problems.. And then you have KAINE.. That mother fucker has nothing good for us... She really fucked up choosing him.

perrhaps
08-04-2016, 09:15 PM
Hillary Clinton cannot win this election, but Donald Trump is sure as Hell losing it.

Right at the conclusion of the GOP Convention, he was told by a group of astute, veteran GOP officials that he needed to remember that the ONLY person he needs to beat in November is Hillary Clinton; not everybody else who criticizes him. The idiotic fight he's picked with a Gold Star mother severely hurts him.

The focus of his campaign should be jobs; national security and Clinton's Pinocchio Syndrome. If he can't control his massive fucking ego and temper, and focus only on these three things, he frankly deserves the drubbing he's going to get, and the American public will be verily screwed.