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 But the former secretary of state still has a lead of more than 20
percentage points over her nearest rival, Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders, the online survey showed on Friday.
Clinton has suffered a steady erosion in the number of people in
opinion polls who see her as trustworthy as
controversy has grown over her use of a private email account when
she served as America's top diplomat.
The Reuters/Ipsos survey, a rolling poll taken over the previous
five days, put Clinton at 45 percent, with Sanders at 25 percent.
 The lead is Clinton's smallest since Reuters/Ipsos began polling
Democrats in late 2012 about who they want to see representing them
at the November 2016 presidential election.
Vice President Joe Biden, who is considering whether to challenge
Clinton for the nomination, came in third at 16 percent. Biden was
polling at around 10 percent a month ago.
A total of 494 people who identified themselves as Democrats took
part in the poll, which had a credibility interval of plus or minus
5.1 percentage points.
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Clinton's lead is now slightly smaller than the gap between
Republican front-runner Donald Trump and his nearest rival, former
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, in a Reuters/Ipsos survey of
Republicans.
Trump, with 33 percent, led Huckabee, with 12 percent, on Friday.
(Reporting by Alistair Bell)
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