Independents like third-party ads better than Clinton, Trump ads

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president, on Monday said she took seriously the threat that Russian Federation could interfere with national elections in the United States and that her campaign rival is fixated on dictators.

According to Suffolk, 41% of North Carolina voters said they have a favorable opinion of Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, while 49% said they have an unfavorable opinion.

On Friday, for example, FBI officials released documents from the investigation into Clinton’s private email server. The inability of the FBI to access the devices, in the Bureau’s words, “prevented the FBI from conclusively determining whether the classified information transmitted and stored on Clinton’s personal server systems was compromised via cyber intrusion or other means”. That is virtually unchanged from a month ago, when Clinton led Trump 46-45 – considered a statistical dead heat.

“Despite close numbers, Hillary Clinton is poised to win by dominating the issue dimensions of governing, caring, temperament and being for the middle class”, said pollster Celinda Lake, a Democrat and president of Lake Research Partners, a group that conducted the poll with the university.

Clinton and Trump both get the support of 47 percent of likely voters in a head-to-head matchup, according to the Quinnipiac poll, released Thursday.

According to RealClearPolitics’ current projections, even winning all four states highlighted in this poll won’t be enough to clinch the presidency for Trump.

Trump is also doing better in national polls. Other recent polling in the state has found Clinton with a larger edge.

Now, however, Trump has closed the gap in a number of swing-states, particularly in the Midwest.

A new national poll out Wednesday shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump locked in a virtual tie, the latest survey to show an exceedingly tight race with just over two months to go before Election Day. The Real Clear Politics poll average shows Clinton with a three point lead.

According to the Emerson poll Trump has also narrowed the gap in Virginia, home state to Clinton’s running-mate Tim Kaine, a state Obama won in both 2012 and 2008.