Poll: Clinton Faces Battle To Win Michigan
Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press 9:33 a.m. EDT August 25, 2015
WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is no doubt counting on Michigan being in the Democratic column again in the 2016 presidential race, but with more than half the people in a new poll expressing an unfavorable view of her, that’s not as certain an outcome as it had been.
Clinton, the favorite for the Democratic nomination, has seen her unfavorable rating rise across the U.S. with questions swirling about her use of a private email server during her time at the State Department. And, according to a new poll by Lansing-based EPIC-MRA done exclusively for the Free Press/WXYZ-TV, it’s no different in Michigan.
Some 55% of the 600 likely voters surveyed between last Tuesday and Saturday gave her an unfavorable rating, compared to 32% who viewed her favorably. Meanwhile, in head-to-head matchups with leading Republican candidates, she trailed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush 45%-40% with 15% undecided, and barely led businessman Donald Trump 44%-42% with 14% undecided.
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Early presidential election poll shows close race (Photo: Martha Thierry/Detroit Free Press)
With 15 months to go until the election it’s too early to read too much into head-to-head results. But it’s still a notable turnaround for a candidate who in June led Bush in the same poll 40%-37%, and who counts among her top allies former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, whose Twitter photo shows her standing with the former first lady.
“For a state that is assumed to be a winning state for the Democrats, as it has been for the last several elections, to be trailing Jeb Bush by five points suggests that something is going on,” said EPIC-MRA president Bernie Porn. The poll has a margin of error of plus of minus 4 percentage points.
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