on the eve of election day, a bloomberg politics poll puts hillary clinton up three nationally. | ap photo by louis nelson 11/07/16 06:39 am est democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton has managed to hang onto a narrow nationwide lead despite donald trump<u+2019>s late resurgence, with just one day to go before voters across the country head to the polls. a new bloomberg politics poll released monday puts clinton up 46 percent to 43 percent over trump in a head-to-head race between the major-party candidates. the poll was in the field over the weekend but did not include interviews conducted after fbi director james comey<u+2019>s made public that the bureau had completed its review of additional evidence relating to clinton<u+2019>s long-running email scandal without changing its assessment that she should not face criminal charges. story continued below the former secretary of state<u+2019>s advantage over the manhattan billionaire lies within the poll<u+2019>s margin of error and still represents a significant tightening of the race since the middle of last month. clinton led trump by 9 percentage points, 50 percent to 41 percent, in a bloomberg poll released on oct. 19, the day of the third presidential debate. clinton maintains her 3 point advantage in a four-way race that also includes libertarian gary johnson and the green party's jill stein. with those candidates included, the former secretary of state leads 44 percent to 41 percent, with johnson polling at 4 percent and stein at 1 percent. the bloomberg poll shows clinton performing well with women, voters with college degrees and voters under the age of 35, all demographics where she holds a 15-point lead over trump. she polls especially well with suburban women, who favor her by 22 percent over the gop nominee, and non-white voters, with whom she holds a 37 percent edge. hispanic voters, a key group for clinton in several swing states, favor her nationwide by 25-points. trump<u+2019>s advantages lie among white men, a group he leads by 25-points, and voters living in rural areas, which he leads by 30 points. voters without a college degree preferred trump by an 8 point margin and those who are married favored him by 9 points. thirty-seven percent of the likely voters who responded to the poll said that they had already cast a ballot in early voting. within that group, clinton holds an 8 point edge, 46 percent to 38 percent. the bloomberg politics poll was conducted from nov. 4 to nov. 6, reaching 799 likely voters nationwide with a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.5 points. by bill scher by joshua zeitz by thomas wright by jack shafer
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