Trump, Clinton in virtual tie in Missouri

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON • Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a virtual tie in Missouri, according to a new Post-Dispatch poll.

A survey of 625 likely voters conducted last weekend shows the Democrat Clinton with 41 percent to the Republican Trump’s 40 percent, with Libertarian Gary Johnson at 9 percent. The telephone poll, conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Mason-Dixon pollster Brad Coker said the results suggest Missouri may be returning to the national barometer status it held before 2008.

Starting in 1960, the Show-Me state voted for the national winner in 12 straight presidential elections, switching between Democrat and Republican choices that mirrored the nation’s preference. But the last Democratic presidential candidate to win Missouri was Bill Clinton in 1996.

Coker said doubts about both major candidates’ characters overlay the 2016 campaign in Missouri, and that the support for Johnson hurts Trump more than Clinton. Those factors make the race hard to predict, he said, but the underlying numbers suggest it will be a closer race than in 2012, when Republican Mitt Romney scored a 9-plus-point win in Missouri over President Barack Obama.


http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/trump-clinton-in-virtual-tie-in-missouri/article_ecbca03a-ea36-5bef-bf8c-fcb817cc7c31.html

[grossproffit]

1. Jill Stein 1%. Barely a blip on the radar.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Trump is dead and was dead meat. If he just lost the hearts and minds of all vets

he can't take it back. Clinton has only launched the first salvo Trumps tweeting is a joke. Imagine what this is going to look like in October.

[Person 2713]

3. Those are some pretty sick numbers . Really to me anything over the 15% mark is a sad reflection

of what this country is right now. There will always be crazies but over about 15% for a total racist nut bag is scary . It means die hard Rs marching in lock step with what the party gives them and they will not change ever and many may agree with all his talking points