Leftists are simply getting sick and tired of Hillary Clinton.
What the media used to call “strong enthusiasm” for Hillary has plummeted since the FBI’s announcement of the continuing email investigation.
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What does that mean? Trump is now up in the polls. A new ABC/Washington Post tracking poll shows 46 percent of likely voters support Donald Trump compared to 45 percent for Clinton. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson now has 3 percent support (a new low) while Green Party candidate Jill Stein is at 2 percent.
The poll is actually even closer than one percent. Taking it to the decimal, as ABC reports, Trump has a zero-point-seven percent advantage.
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These results are a two-point switch for the candidates since one day earlier and a dramatic change from one week ago. On Oct. 23, Clinton enjoyed a 50 percent lead over Trump’s 38 percent.
When asked how enthusiastic voters were about their candidate, Clinton fares much worse. On Oct. 22, 52 percent of Clinton supporters were enthusiastic about their candidate compared to 49 percent of Trump supporters. Now, 53 percent of Trump supporters are enthusiastic and only 45 percent of Clinton voters feel that way.
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This poll is unique also because they asked a significantly larger number of Democrats than Republicans. “Partisan divisions are 38-28-29 percent Democrats-Republicans-independents.”
Nationally, there are a few more self-identified Democrats than Republicans, but the numbers hardly break that far to the left. And Independent voters are impossible to measure, since there is no “independent” presidential candidate.”
This is a close race, but vote preference even one week out is not necessarily indicative of election results. In the 2012 race, Romney was ahead of Obama by one point and President Obama went on to win by four percentage points.
