Democratic presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton holds a modest lead over Republican
Donald Trump in the latest Washington Post-
ABC Tracking Poll released on Sunday.
In a Post-ABC poll released two days before,
Clinton had led Trump by 47 per cent to 44
per cent.
Clinton had an advantage in affirmative
support, the poll said, with 55 per cent of
backers saying they are mainly supporting
her, compared with 43 per cent of Trump
voters.
More Trump voters say they “mainly oppose
Clinton”.
As early voting winds down, a spike in Latino
turnout across the country appears to be
giving Clinton an edge in battleground states.
The final polls are trickling in and Clinton is
retaining a modest lead nationally.
Similarly, 44 per cent of likely voters support
Clinton and 40 per cent back Trump,
according to a new NBC News/WSJ national
poll released on Sunday.
Clinton holds big leads with women and
minority voters, while men, white voters and
senior citizens buttress Trump’s support.
The Democratic candidate is also doing better
with those who have already cast their ballots,
but the Republican candidate holds a lead
among voters who plan to do so on election
day.
Americans will vote for a new president on
Tuesday but about 37 million voters have
already chosen who they want to rule the
country in early voting.
The new poll came alongside a brief moment
of drama in the final days of campaigning
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) in the U.S. reports that both Clinton
and Trump have concentrated their attention
to battleground states that are the
determinants of who wins the election.
States like Arizona, Florida, North Carolina,
Ohio and Virginia have the power to swing the
election but so far, neither Trump nor Clinton
has a significant lead in these crucial states.
Florida has 29 Electoral College and if Clinton
wins, Trump would have to win almost all
every other swing state to be elected
president.
Ohio has 18 Electoral College votes and Trump
needs to win Ohio if he is to have any chance.
North Carolina has 15 and Obama won the
state in 2008 but lost to Republican in 2012,
but polls are split on how the state would fall.
Virginia has 13 Electoral College votes and it
had voted 10 consecutive Republican
presidents before Obama won it in 2008 and
2012, but polls show that it is leaning
towards Clinton.
Arizona has 11 Electoral College votes and
Trump needs to win it if he is to claim the
White House.
Currently, Clinton’s electoral vote total is at
268 when all the states that are solidly or
leaning in her direction are added up against
Trump’s 204.
That leaves six remaining battleground
contests worth a total of 66 electoral votes in
Arizona, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire,
North Carolina, and the second congressional
district in and around Omaha, Nebraska
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