ap photo by nolan d. mccaskill 11/07/16 11:00 am est hillary clinton heads into election day with a 6-point lead over donald trump, according to a national monmouth university poll released monday morning. clinton garners 50 percent support among likely voters, followed by trump at 44 percent, libertarian nominee gary johnson at 4 percent and green party candidate jill stein at 1 percent, with an additional 1 percent undecided. story continued below on the penultimate day of the presidential election, clinton and trump still have high negatives. fifty-five percent view trump unfavorably, while 54 percent view clinton unfavorably. among registered voters, only 27 percent are satisfied with trump as the republican nominee. fifty-four percent said they would have preferred another nominee <u+201c>a great deal,<u+201d> and 12 percent would have preferred a different nominee <u+201c>just somewhat.<u+201d> similarly, only about a third of registered voters are satisfied with clinton representing the democratic party. nearly 50 percent would have preferred a different nominee <u+201c>a great deal<u+201d> and 10 percent <u+201c>just somewhat.<u+201d> a majority (57 percent) of registered voters also believe clinton will be elected president tuesday. an overwhelming 87 percent said either clinton or trump will win the election <u+201c>fair and square,<u+201d> while 9 percent said the victor will have won mainly <u+201c>because the system is rigged.<u+201d> the monmouth university survey of 748 likely voters was conducted nov. 3-6 via landlines and cellphones. it has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. the sample of 802 registered voters has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
monmouth poll shows clinton with 6-point national lead over trump - politico
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