Fort Hays St. University poll in Missouri: Democrats are behind
The results of a new poll, conducted on behalf of Fort Hays St. University in Missouri, were released 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, 38.0% said that they will vote for the Democrats, whereas 43.0% said that they would give their vote to the Republicans. The poll was conducted between March 3 and March 10. The sample size was 475 adults. The sampling error is +/-4.6 points.
Converting these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 46.9% for the Democrats and 53.1% for the Republicans. The vote share for the republicans is 1.1 percentage points over the average results of other polls in Missouri.