the presidential election continues to be a dead heat in nevada, while democratic nominee hillary clinton has opened a wider lead over republican donald trump in new hampshire, a new poll finds, as the candidates battle down the stretch even in states with tiny caches of electoral college votes. in nevada, a new wall street journal/nbc news/marist poll finds mr. trump and mrs. clinton each garnering 43% of likely voters, while libertarian gary johnson draws 10%. green party candidate jill stein isn<u+2019>t on the nevada ballot. in new hampshire, mrs. clinton leads 45%-36%, a jump from a race that was neck and neck there a month ago. the big shift: her lead among women has surged to a 25-percentage-point advantage, up from 14 points in september. some 10% went for mr. johnson and 4% for ms. stein. even though only 10 electoral votes are at stake in the two states, they are being fiercely contested because, if mr. trump can make the race overall competitive by winning vote-rich states like florida and ohio, he still will need to pick up a collection of smaller states to reach the 270-vote threshold. mrs. clinton campaigned monday in new hampshire with one of her most popular surrogates, massachusetts sen. elizabeth warren . mr. trump heads to new hampshire on friday for a campaign event in manchester. both candidates were in nevada last week for the third presidential debate, in las vegas. the journal/nbc/marist poll was taken oct. 20-24, after a particularly rough patch for mr. trump. his campaign was hit by the release of a 2005 video in which he said degrading things about women, followed by a number of women coming forward to accuse him of making unwanted sexual advances in the past. he denies all the allegations, and dismissed the video as <u+201c>locker room<u+201d> banter. but in nevada, all that turmoil seems to have made no lasting difference compared with a month ago, when the two candidates also were effectively tied: mr. trump was up by 1 percentage point, 42%-41%, in a september journal/nbc/marist poll. winning nevada would be a big accomplishment for mr. trump in a once-reliable red state that went democratic in 2008 and 2012. democrats have high hopes for winning nevada because of its large latino population. but the new poll shows that the latino vote has shifted in mr. trump<u+2019>s direction over the past month. mrs. clinton still has a solid lead among hispanics, 52%-36%, but last month her margin was almost twice as wide, 59%-28%. helping mr. trump hang on in nevada is a united party: he has support from 87% of republicans, matching mrs. clinton<u+2019>s 87% support from democrats. in new hampshire, on the other hand, mrs. clinton has a much firmer grip on her party<u+2019>s base: 91% of democrats support her while only 76% of republicans back mr. trump. support for her from women surged over the last month to 54%-29%<u+2014>a margin almost twice as wide as a month ago, when it was 47%-33%. both states are also home to competitive senate races that could determine whether democrats can pick up the four seats they need to take over the majority if mrs. clinton wins the white house. in nevada, democrats are at risk of losing one of their own seats, the one held by sen. harry reid, who is retiring: the poll found republican joe heck is leading democrat catherine cortez masto, 49%-42%. in a prime pickup target for democrats, the race in new hampshire has grown tighter since september, as the poll found gop sen. kelly ayotte effectively tied, 48%-47%, with her democratic rival, gov. maggie hassan. that is much closer than the 52%-44% margin ms. ayotte enjoyed a month ago, before she took the politically risky step of announcing she would no longer vote for mr. trump after the release of the lewd video. trump supporters criticized her for the move, but the poll showed she didn<u+2019>t lose significant republican support over the last month. new hampshire is also the scene of a competitive governor<u+2019>s race: republican chris sununu, son of former gov. john sununu, is in a dead heat with democrat colin van ostern. that race is fluid because just half of likely voters say they are strongly committed to their choice of candidate. the journal/nbc news/marist survey of nevada included 707 likely voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. the new hampshire survey included 768 likely voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. write to janet hook at janet.hook@wsj.com
clinton<u+2019>s new hampshire lead widens as nevada remains a dead heat  - wsj
janet hook