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Clinton's support
has ranged from 41 percent to 44 percent since late July, and
was about 41 percent in the Aug. 11-15 online poll.
Trump's support has experienced wider shifts ranging from 33
percent to 39 percent while his campaign has endured
controversies and distractions in recent weeks. He is favored by
about 35 percent of likely voters, according to the most recent
poll.
Trump has caused divisions in the Republican Party with his
strong anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, and faced
criticism from both parties earlier this month for a days-long
feud with the parents of a Muslim American Army captain killed
in Iraq. Last week, 70 Republicans, including former members of
Congress and Republican National Committee staff, wrote a letter
calling for the RNC to stop helping Trump, whose actions they
said were "divisive and dangerous."
The number of likely voters who picked neither Clinton nor Trump
in the poll was nearly 24 percent.
At this point in 2012, President Barack Obama was ahead of
Republican nominee Mitt Romney by nearly the same margin,
favored by 46 percent of likely voters to Romney's 41 percent,
with about 13 percent picking neither candidate.
Obama and Romney swapped the lead in the poll several times
through the summer and early fall before the president took and
held the lead in late October.
In a separate Reuters/Ipsos poll that gave respondents the
option to choose from Clinton, Trump, Libertarian candidate Gary
Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Clinton also led
Trump by 6 percentage points.
Of the alternative party candidates, Johnson came in third with
8 percentage points. Stein had about 2 percentage points.
The Aug. 11-15 polls surveyed a sample of 1,132 and 1,131 likely
voters, respectively, and had a credibility interval of 3
percentage points.
(Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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