S.C. Democrats tout new poll showing Clinton, Trump in dead heat [View all]
Source: The Post and Courier
A new poll shows Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump tied in the presidential contest in the Palmetto State.
The poll, paid for by the South Carolina Democratic Party and conducted by the Feldman Group, found Clinton and Trump neck-and-neck at 39 percent in a state that hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
“Clinton could win South Carolina this year if her campaign chooses to contest the state,” the Feldman Group told S.C. Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison in a memo accompanying the poll results, which drew from interviews with a sample size of “600 likely voters” between August 18-21.
The news is exciting for Democrats in South Carolina, still riding high from a Public Policy Polling survey from earlier this month finding Trump just two points ahead of Clinton. Their eagerness to make a splash with these new numbers was on display Tuesday night: They gave liberal journalist Rachel Maddow an exclusive on the data, which she reported live on her widely-watched show on MSNBC. Harrison appeared on a split screen for an interview
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That's South Carolina. Not a typo.
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