North Carolina: Clear lead for Democrats in latest Elon University poll

Results of a new poll carried out by Elon University were released on March 30. Participants from North Carolina were asked, who they would give their vote to, if the election were today. The results reveal that 47.0% of respondents intend to vote for Hillary Clinton, whereas 41.0% said they would vote for Donald Trump. The poll was conducted from February 15 to February 17 among 1530 likely voters. The margin of error is +/-2.5 percentage points.

Translating these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 53.4% for Clinton and 46.6% for the republican Trump. The vote share for the republicans is 2.3 percentage points over the average results of other polls in North Carolina.

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