Emerson poll in New York: Democrats are ahead
The results of a new poll, sponsored Emerson in New York, were released on April 18. In the survey participants were asked, whether they would vote for democrat Hillary Clinton or republican Donald Trump, assuming that these two candidates would win the primaries. The results show that 55.0% of interviewees intend to vote for the democrat Hillary Clinton, whereas 36.0% said they would vote for the republican Donald Trump. The poll was carried out from April 15 to April 17 with 1047 likely voters. Figures have a +/-3.0 percentage points error margin.
Converting these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 60.4% for Clinton and 39.6% for Trump. The democrats did better by 1.2 percentage points in comparison to the average results of the other polls in New York.