Poll: Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in Ohio by 4 percentage points
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 4 percentage points in the swing state of Ohio, according to a Monmouth University survey released Monday.
The poll found Clinton leads Trump 43 percent to 39 percent, while 10 percent of the state’s likely voters back Libertarian Gary Johnson and less than 1 percent support Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Eight percent of Ohio’s likely voters remain undecided, the poll found. Independents are evenly split 35 percent to 35 percent between Clinton and Trump and 20 percent back Johnson.
Eighty-eight percent of Democrats support Clinton and 83 percent of Republicans in the state support Trump.
While Trump leads Clinton among white men 52 percent to 28 percent, Clinton leads Trump among white women 46 percent to 38 percent. Clinton leads Trump 72 percent to 10 percent among black, Asian and Hispanic voters.
If Ohio Gov. John Kasich had won the GOP nomination, 57 percent of voters said they would have voted for him in the general election compared to a third who said they would vote for Clinton in that hypothetical match-up.
The poll also found that Republican incumbent Sen. Rob Portman leads his Democratic challenger former Gov. Ted Strickland 48 percent to 40 percent.
A CBS News/YouGov survey released Sunday found that Clinton leads Trump in Ohio by 6 percentage points -- 46 percent to 40 percent.
President Obama won the swing state in both 2008 and 2012.
The Monmouth poll surveyed 402 Ohio residents likely to vote in November between August 18 and 21 with a roughly 5 percentage point margin of error.
