Clinton leading among young voters,
Harvard poll finds
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[October 27, 2016]
BOSTON (Reuters) - Democratic White
House candidate Hillary Clinton is leading among likely voters aged 18
to 29, according to a Harvard University opinion poll released on
Wednesday.
The former U.S. secretary of state had the support of 49 percent of
likely voters, ahead of Republican rival Donald Trump's 28 percent
support, a substantially wider lead than Democratic President Barack
Obama had over Republican former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at
the same point in 2012.
National polls of voters of all ages also show Clinton leading, though
by a substantially narrower margin.
Some 14 percent of respondents said they planned to vote for Libertarian
Gary Johnson, with 5 percent supporting the Green Party's Jill Stein and
11 percent still undecided. More than one in three self-described
Johnson voters said they were likely to change their minds before
Election Day.
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A majority of respondents, 51 percent, described themselves as "fearful"
about the future of America, with just 14 percent of the 2,150
respondents saying they believed the country was headed in the right
direction.
The sense of fearfulness was most predominant among white respondents,
though 85 of black respondents said they believed they were "under
attack" in modern American society.
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Some 62 percent of respondents said they believed race relations in
the United States would worsen if Trump was elected president.
Twenty-two percent thought race relations would deteriorate if
Clinton won the Nov. 8 election, with the plurality, 36 percent
predicting they would stay the same.
The survey, conducted Oct. 7-17 has a margin of error of 3.1
percentage points, meaning results could vary that much either way.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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