Clinton leads Trump 42 to 36 percent as
he loses women's support: poll
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[October 29, 2016]
By Chris Kahn
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary
Clinton's lead over Republican rival Donald Trump widened to 6
percentage points in the latest Reuters/Ipsos U.S. presidential tracking
poll, released on Friday, showing Trump losing support among women.
The Oct. 21-27 opinion poll shows 42 percent of people who either voted
already or expect to vote in the Nov. 8 election support Clinton, versus
36 percent for Trump. Clinton's lead a week ago was 4 points.
The polling was conducted before Clinton's campaign was hit on Friday by
the FBI announcement that it was investigating more emails as part of a
probe into her use of a private email server while secretary of state.
FBI Director James Comey said in a letter to several congressional
Republicans that the agency had learned of the existence of emails that
appeared to be pertinent to its investigation. However, he said the FBI
did not know if the emails were significant and did not provide a time
frame for the probe.
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Trump, a New York businessman seeking his first elected office, has
consistently trailed Clinton in the poll. His level of support has
remained below 40 percent among all likely voters since the beginning of
September.
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Clinton leads Trump by 10 points among likely women voters, up from a
4-point lead the previous week. Clinton has led Trump among women over
the last two months, though the size of her advantage has varied widely
from 1 point to 11 points.
In a 2005 video that emerged this month, Trump could be heard bragging
in vulgar terms about groping and kissing women. At least a dozen women
have since publicly accused him of making unwanted sexual advances.
Trump denies the allegations.
Trump still has an edge among white women, a key source of strength for
Republicans. Trump leads Clinton by 2 points with this group, down from
a 12-point lead the previous week.
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Women tend to lean Democratic, but Reuters/Ipsos polling this month
shows a majority of women have an unfavorable view of the former
U.S. secretary of state and believe she is not honest and truthful.
Clinton also led Trump by 6 points in a separate Reuters/Ipsos poll
that included alternative party candidates.
Both polls, conducted online in English in all 50 states, included
1,627 American adults who were considered to be likely voters from
their voting history, registration status and stated intention to
vote.
That sample included 965 likely women voters and 776 likely white
women voters. Individual responses were adjusted to reflect the
overall U.S. population.
The poll has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3
percentage points for the total sample and 4 percentage points for
the women voters.
The RealClearPolitics website, which tracks most major polls, shows
Clinton leading Trump by an average of 5 percentage points.
(Editing by Howard Goller and Jonathan Oatis)
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