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Sun May 22, 2016, 08:47 AM May 2016

"Clinton, Trump in virtual dead heat"

The coming presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump begins in a virtual dead heat, a competition between two candidates viewed unfavorably by a majority of the current electorate and with voters motivated as much by whom they don’t like as by whom they do, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Never in the history of the Post-ABC poll have the two major party nominees been viewed as harshly as Clinton and Trump.
Clinton’s net negative rating among registered voters is minus-16, while Trump’s is
minus-17, though Trump’s numbers have improved since March.

... the survey foreshadows a hard-fought, competitive and negative general election.
At this point, the two candidates are in a statistical dead heat among registered voters, with Trump favored by 46 percent and Clinton favored by 44 percent.

That represents an 11-point shift toward the presumptive Republican nominee since March.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-election-2016-shapes-up-as-a-contest-of-negatives/2016/05/21/8d4ccfd6-1ed3-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_poll0522-1201am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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"Clinton, Trump in virtual dead heat" (Original Post) left-of-center2012 May 2016 OP
"the two major party nominees" corkhead May 2016 #1
evidently we all did! Merryland May 2016 #3
Vote for Trump if you wish. I'm voting for Hillary. Trust Buster May 2016 #2
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