Mercyhurst University poll in Pennsylvania: Democrats are ahead
Results of a new poll conducted by Mercyhurst University were released on April 4. Participants from Pennsylvania were asked, who they would give their vote to, if the election were today. The results reveal that 43.0% of respondents plan to vote for Hillary Clinton, whereas 35.0% said they would vote for Donald Trump. The poll was conducted between March 1 and March 11. The sample size was 421 registered voters. The sampling error is +/-4.8 percentage points.
Translating these results into two-party vote shares yields figures of 55.1% for Clinton and 44.9% for the republican Trump. The vote share for the democrats is 0.3 percentage points over the average results of other polls in Pennsylvania.