A “final” poll carried out two days before the election shows that Hillary Clinton holds a four-point national lead over Donald Trump.
A national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Clinton got 44 percent of the support of likely voters while Trump generated 40 percent. Gary Johnson is now at 6 percent, while Green Party’s Jill Stein got 2 percent.
In the middle of October, Clinton’s 4 percent lead shows that she dropped 7 points in the NBC/WSJ poll. That poll was taken right before FBI director James Comey announced his agency would re-open an investigation into Clinton’s email server. The mid-October poll was carried out right after leaked tapes showed Trump making lewd comments about women.
The latest poll was conducted between Nov. 3 and Nov. 5 of around 1,200 likely voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.73 percentage points.
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The RealClearPolitics average, from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5, shows Clinton at 46.6 percent and Trump at 44.8 percent.
The Journal noted that there “is a much higher level of post-election unease even than in the bitter 2000 fight between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush.”
Clinton would have a somewhat broader appeal if she won the election, but around 46% said they would not be comfortable and would not be prepared to support her, the Journal reported.
