AJC poll: Hillary Clinton has slim lead over Donald Trump in Georgia
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. AP file.
Democrat Hillary Clinton has built a slim lead over Donald Trump in Georgia after one of the worst weeks of the Republican’s campaign, and the Libertarian presidential ticket cracked double-digits, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll.
The poll released Friday shows Clinton at 44 percent and Trump at 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup, within the poll’s margin of error. It is the latest showing a close race between the two candidates in Georgia, a state that has voted for the GOP nominee since 1996.
In a four-way race, Clinton led Trump 41-38, followed by Libertarian Gary Johnson with 11 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein with 2 percent. When including which candidates voters “lean” toward, Clinton led Trump 43-39, and Johnson netted 12 percent.
The findings come after both conventions ended and a particularly rough patch for Trump, who engaged in a war of words with the family of a slain Muslim U.S. soldier and infuriated many Republicans when he refused to endorse two of the party’s top elected officials.
Friday’s survey marks a change from the last AJC poll, commissioned in May, which gave Trump a 45-41 lead over Clinton. It also shows the former secretary of state besting Trump among independents, an influential Georgia voting bloc that typically votes Republican.
Both Trump and Clinton had the exact same unfavorability rating – 58 percent – among Georgia voters. And a majority of Trump’s backers said they see their decision as a vote against Clinton rather than a vote for the New York businessman.
Johnson barely surpassed 1 percent of Georgia’s vote in the 2012 campaign, when he was also the Libertarian nominee for president. But he could be poised to do far better this year by tailoring his pitch to voters disillusioned by both Trump and Clinton, and the poll has him netting about one-fifth of support from Georgia independents.
Georgia still isn’t directly in Clinton’s crosshairs, and her campaign has yet to declare Georgia a battleground state. But a common strain from the Democratic and Republican conventions was that Georgia has the chance to turn blue for the first time since Bill Clinton’s 1992 win over President George H.W. Bush.
The poll was conducted by ABT SRBI between Aug. 1-4 and included 847 registered voters. The margin of error was about 4.3 percentage points.
The AJC will publish several more stories and blog posts about the poll throughout the next few days, so stay tuned.
More: Read all about the AJC poll’s findings here.
More: Is this the election that turns Georgia into a battleground state?
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I won't consider Trump until he proves that he pays income taxes. There is growing speculation that he pays zero income taxes. We know that he makes ties in China and shirts in Bangladesh. He stiffs hard working contractors and is no friend of the American worker. He is a serial liar on the trail and hasn't done anything to earn the right to be President.
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Funny that the last rally hillary has had only 171 supporters show up and she always is lucky if she makes even 500 while Trump has thousands show up to almost every one of his.
So if Trump has thousands of supporters more then hillary then how can hillary be ahead of Trump? The answer is she CAN'T proving once again that the polls they are using are either fake or rigged as usual to make Americans think she has a chance to win when in reality she has NO chance at all to win.
--Right now Trump is ahead of hillary by 10 to 15 points and is winning by a landslide so they keep putting out rigged polls to try to stop trump but as usual it has FAILED again.
I was born and raised in Atlanta.(GRADY BABY!) I now live outside of Atlanta netween Atlanta and Athens. There are still plenty of white people here. And all of Atlanta is not as black as people believe. Before Bill Clinton most blacks were in Atlanta, but then a great deal of them moved to the Suburbs. There are a lot of Hispanics and Asians in areas like Gwinnett, but there are still lots and lots of whites. Most of the people who can afford to live downtown are white. We didn't just disappear, we just don't run the streets as much as minorities. (I don't mean that to be prejudiced, but go to a black area and there are always lots of people milling around, whites don't mill so much!) I am voting for Trump and proud of it. I don't think Hillary is going to do any of us of ANY race any good. I think she is a crook and full of chit!
Now I know these pills are fake. Lol are you kidding me. These polls are trying to cover up for the mass voter fraud in November. I even work in the hood and no one is for Hillary. They either are for Trump or say they don't care and aren't gonna vote.
This State is for Trump and he should get 55% of the state at least.
Survey\poll done at 11am in Atlanta.to people at home who don't' work,,, get government handouts...Yes it's slanted toward crooked hillary
That this discussion is even happening is a pretty good sign that Trump is in real trouble. Sorry "Trumpkins" but your candidate is imploding as we speak.
Not to mention, in 2012, Obama's raw numbers were down from 2008. Hillary will not match Obama's raw vote numbers from 2012. Dont forget, polls showed Democrats would do decent in 2012 Congressional elections as well. Turned out the Republicans won in a landslide. I just dont see Democrats being as enthusiastic about Hillary as Trump supporters are about him. I image the only Latinos that will vote against Trump are the Mexicans. I know quite a few people from Colombia and Peru, and they dislike Mexicans, and want Trump to win. Brexit wasn't expected either.....polls showed "Remain" would win.....yet "Leave" won by 3 or 4% points
I haven't seen the first Hillary bumper sticker or yard sign, and I live in an area that is 40% Latino. Georgia is becoming more like Texas demographically though. In Texas, whites are only 44% of the population. And this is why crime rates in Texas are gradually increasing. So many illegals. Illegal immigrants kills over 3,000 US citizens every year in the US. If the roles were reversed, and the evil Gringo were killing Mexican citizens, there'd be protests all over Mexico.
That slight edge comes from illegal immigrants and the increase in blacks. Atlanta is mostly black now. The white population in GA is now the new minority. Just check out Dalton GA(45% Hispanic) and Moultrie(Little Mexico) in South GA. The state of Ga has "gone to the dogs" and real fast.
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Trump is not going to win. He is behind double digits in key swing States. Georgia would just be a cherry on top of an already iced cake.
I don't know who you poll, but your polls are about as reliable as your articles have been lately
The Fx News Narrative is silly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/clintons-fibs-vs-trumps-huge-lies.html
Not good Dems/Libs
Not fit
Not stable
Not strong
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Why is Huma around?
To "relax" Hillary?
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The ratio of switching is much more switching to Trump than to Clinton. Well over 100k in both Pennsylvania & Ohio alone. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/100000-pennsylvania-democrat-voters-switch-parties-vote-trump/ http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2016/jul/20/hugh-hewitt/hugh-hewitt-million-ohio-democrats-changed-parties/ 10 to 1 by one statistic- but if you ask the Crooked Media they will only report the other way.
Expert Analysis Finds Hillary Clinton's Recent Seizures A Sign Of Brain Damage - Hillary Is Short Circuiting
Don't forget, we have 90 days for TraitorTrump to tank even more. AZ and GA are already in the Clinton column. We now have to set our sites on TX, MS and UT...and flipping the House, Senate and 60 majority Senate to the Dems. Give money now. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to put the GOP out of its misery.
Trump can change his tone to nice, his tenor to a bass, and his color from orange to blue if he wants. Fortunatley for everyone in this country, he has already shown us his true "colors." The rest of it is just window dressing, and basically, we don't want his kind anywhere near the Whitehouse. And maybe, just for people who support Trump, I should add that the term "Whitehouse" is a reference to the color that it's painted, NOT a restriction on who can be in it. Just sayin'
Vienna Hollister: "I'm an Arizona republican. I will be voting for Clinton. There is nothing Trump can say or do that would sway me his direction. The old saying about the leopard not changing his spots has a lot of truth to it. I could never believe anything Trump said and I fear for the nation if he's elected.
Republican Senator Says Trump Could Lose Arizona
That would signal a landslide for Democrats 08/07/2016
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on Sunday said: “The statements he made out of the gate about those crossing the border being rapists and whatnot ― that doesn’t sit well,” Flake said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” referring to Trump. “And then to refer to a judge born in Indiana as a Mexican in a pejorative way ― you can’t expect to win Arizona when you make statements like that, and you offend a large and growing demographic needlessly.”
Flake also said that Trump should apologize to the family of Humayun Khan, an American soldier who was killed in 2004 during the Iraq War. Trump belittled the family after they gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention opposing his candidacy. Trump suggested that Khan’s mother, Ghazala, was not “allowed” to speak at the convention because of her religion. Ghazala Khan and her husband, Khizr, fired back afterward.
Newt Gingrich Repudiates Donald Trump’s Economic Plan
When host Chris Wallace asked whether Trump’s tax and spending plan adds up, Gingrich admitted the absurdity.
“Of course not,” Gingrich said. According to Fox, Trump’s plan would add $11.2 trillion onto the national debt ― most of that fueled by tax cuts for the wealthy. Since the federal debt owed to the public is about $12.8 trillion, that’s an increase of more than 87 percent. There’s not adding up, and then there’s not adding up, Trump style.
Trump’s plan is so preposterous that even his surrogates won’t do that.
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She won't win Georgia!!! We don't want a criminal for a President oh wait we all ready have one in office! We don't need a female version of Obama!! Be smart people!!!!
I would be slack-jawed if Clinton actually wins Georgia. I think the AJC poll over-estimates the intelligence of the average Georgia voter.
Serious question: Does Hillary have a 'physical' problem? This transcript was 8 years ago. She certainly dose not appear more 'chipper' eight years later! Can only blame 'short circuits' so long!
(Note the expression on John Edward’s face. No wonder she cannot take the ‘3AM calls’!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li397HTHmt0
@PappyHappy Cue the name calling for these 2 CORRECT black women in 5, 4, 3, 2........
How in the world can Hillary Clinton be trusted?? HOW? How many more lives will she waste?
Or, will she continue to take the attitude from the past: “AT THIS POINT, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?”
@OH:IO Hillary's motto is "DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO! I'M SPECIAL AND MAKE THE LAWS FOR YOU -- NOT ME!"
The debates will settle this matter. Hillary will go back to New York with her head between her legs and tears rolling down her cheeks. He face cheeks that is..........
@HANK55 That insult is why Trump cant get elected. When the people get past the sound bytes and bravado and ask Trump to show us the leader he is....he just insults people. I gotta know without talking about Hillary or anything else, Yes or No do you think building a wall between the US and Mexico will solve illegal immigration?
@HANK55 Would put absolutely nothing past them to insure Hillary is elected. While I am not a Trump supporter, and know that he is blowing his mouth about a rigged election, would not be surprised to see fun and games go on in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Nevada, and Colorado. There is just too much money at stake for the Clinton Foundation and their personal patrons.
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