hillary clinton leads the four-way race with 47 percent support. | ap photo by nolan d. mccaskill 10/26/16 02:50 pm edt updated 10/26/16 02:50 pm edt hillary clinton has a nearly double-digit lead over donald trump nationally, according to a suffolk university/usa today poll released wednesday afternoon. clinton tops trump by 9 points with less than two weeks until election day. she leads a four-way race with 47 percent support, followed by trump at 38 percent, libertarian nominee gary johnson at 4 percent and green party candidate jill stein at 2 percent, with 7 percent undecided. story continued below in a head-to-head matchup, clinton leads trump by 10 points, 49 percent to 39 percent, with 10 percent undecided. while clinton is still viewed unfavorably, her net favorability is much better than trump<u+2019>s. the former secretary of state<u+2019>s net favorability is -1 (46 percent favorable, 47 percent unfavorable), while trump<u+2019>s is -30 (31 percent favorable, 61 percent unfavorable). president barack obama enjoys a 54 percent approval rating, but a majority of likely voters surveyed (54 percent) said the country is on the wrong track. despite that, 7 in 10 said they expect clinton will emerge victorious on election day. nearly 20 percent said they would be enthusiastic about her election, 31 percent would be satisfied, 18 percent would be dissatisfied and 28 percent would be scared. if trump were elected, 43 percent said they would be scared, while 21 percent said they would be satisfied, 18 percent enthusiastic and 14 percent dissatisfied. nearly half of both candidates<u+2019> supporters said the negative stories surrounding their preferred choice <u+2014> sexual assault allegations against trump and the wikileaks hack of clinton campaign chairman john podesta<u+2019>s personal email account <u+2014> won<u+2019>t impact their vote. forty-three percent of trump<u+2019>s backers and 37 percent of clinton<u+2019>s supporters said the stories make them less likely to support their candidate, though. if clinton does win on nov. 8, trump has suggested he might not concede the election. fifty-five percent of respondents said if their candidate loses, the other candidate will have <u+201c>won fair and square,<u+201d> while 28 percent believe their candidate will have lost because of <u+201c>corruption.<u+201d> almost 40 percent said they think the media are coordinating with the campaigns, but 48 percent think the media are working independently. three-quarters of likely voters, however, said the media would like to see clinton elected. in fact, despite russian hacking into u.s. systems and trump<u+2019>s unsubstantiated claims of a rigged election, 46 percent of likely voters singled out the news media as <u+201c>the primary threat that might to try to change the election results.<u+201d> more than 2 in 10 pointed to the national political establishment, 10 percent to foreign interests (like russian hackers) and 9 percent to local political bosses. fifty-eight percent of respondents believe today<u+2019>s divisions in america are deeper than those in the past, and voters are largely split on whether violence will erupt after the election (51 percent are concerned and 47 percent are either <u+201c>not very concerned<u+201d> or <u+201c>not at all concerned<u+201d>). nevertheless, an overwhelming 74 percent are confident about a peaceful transfer of power. the survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted oct. 20-24 via landlines and cellphones. it has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
clinton holds 9-point lead over trump in new national poll - politico
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