Uneasiness looms over US voters, poll shows

[struggle4progress]

BY DAVID LAUTER
Tribune Washington Bureau

... Trump tops the field nationally, but barely, the poll found. He has support of 25 percent of Republican voters to Carson’s 21 percent. Two Republican senators in their first terms, Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas, now provide the strongest challenges to the leaders. Rubio, who has gained endorsements from several GOP elected officials in recent days, moved into third place, with the support of 12 percent of Republican voters across the country; Cruz got 10 percent.

Jeb Bush, the party’s one-time front-runner, fell to 4 percent, putting him in a tie with Carly Fiorina.

On the Democratic side, economic anxieties have helped fuel Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ challenge to the party’s front-runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton. She received just under half the vote, 48 percent, nationally. Sanders got support from 3 in 10 Democratic voters, the poll found ...

This USC Dornsife poll, conducted in English and Spanish, questioned 3,035 voters nationwide from Oct. 29 to Nov. 3 ...

http://www.heraldonline.com/news/nation-world/article43707372.html

[Betty Karlson]

1. So Clinton's advantage has shrunk again - nationally no less:

she is now just 18 percent ahead of Sanders?

I thought she was supposed to be advancing again? But actually Sanders is still pushing ahead? Or doing so again?
Don't hold your breath for the MSM to report this then.

[struggle4progress]

2. Nothing's very clear to me right now. The horse-race stuff is always easy to write

but is generally uninformative. It matters whether one polls registered voters, likely voters, primary voters, and so on; and the secret-sauce corrections applied by the pollsters matter too

[cantbeserious]

3. Economic Populism Continues To Drive The Debate - The 99% vs The 1%

My money is on the people - to hell with the status quo establishment and crony capitalism of the 1%.

[madokie]

4. Once the ballots are cast

and the counting is done I do believe Sanders will be our next President.