overall, hillary clinton<u+2019>s lead in the four-way matchup is now 9 points, 46 percent to 37 percent. | ap photo by steven shepard 10/11/16 03:03 pm edt this week's nbc news/wall street journal poll just got a little better for donald trump. in interviews with 359 likely voters contacted only on monday, hillary clinton led by seven points on both the two- and four-way ballot tests <u+2014> narrower margins that tightened the results from the eye-popping margins in a national survey conducted by the two news organizations over the weekend. story continued below that release showed clinton with a yawning, 11-point lead over trump in a four-way ballot test that swelled to 14 points in a head-to-head matchup. but on tuesday, those partial poll results were updated to include interviews conducted on monday night <u+2014> after sunday night<u+2019>s second debate <u+2014> which moved the race slightly toward trump. overall, clinton<u+2019>s lead in the four-way matchup is now 9 points, 46 percent to 37 percent, with libertarian gary johnson at 8 percent and green party nominee jill stein at 2 percent. matched up only against trump, clinton now leads by 10 points, 50 percent to 40 percent. the movement in the monday-only results is within the margin of error of plus or minus 5.2 percentage points for interviews conducted only on that day. the change in voters<u+2019> preferences for which party controls congress next year was more subtle. forty-eight percent of likely voters said they support a democratic-controlled congress, compared to 42 percent who want the gop to control congress. democrats had a 7-point lead on this question in the partial results released on monday. overall, the poll was conducted october 8-10, surveying 806 likely voters. the overall margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
post-debate poll shows clinton up 9 points - politico
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