New Emerson poll in New York: Republicans trail by a very clear margin
The results of a new poll, conducted by Emerson in New York, were published on March 23. 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. Of those who answered the question, 55.0% said that they plan to vote for Clinton, whereas 36.0% indicated that they would give their vote to Trump. The poll was conducted from March 14 to March 16 among 768 likely voters. The margin of error is +/-3.5 points.
Converting these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 60.4% for the democrat Hillary Clinton and 39.6% for the republican Donald Trump. The vote share for the democrats is 1.1 percentage points over the average results of other polls in New York.