The
ABC News/Washington Post national tracking poll shows Republican nominee
Donald Trump closing the gap on Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton. Over just 8 days, the poll went from a 50-38 strong Clinton lead to an insignificant 46-45 Trump lead as the presidential election approaches.
That poll is the most extreme example, but over the last week, Republicans are returning to their prior levels of support for Trump after a lackluster month.
Much of that movement in the polls, including the spread in the ABC/Washington Post poll, occurred before FBI director
James Comey’s announcement that the bureau is looking into more emails that could be related to Clinton’s private email use while she was secretary of state. The FBI investigation
doesn’t seem to have affected views of Clinton, but there’s evidence that
it could have taken a toll on enthusiasm to vote for her.
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The early voting returns show two unsurprising things. One is that black voters are turning out in smaller numbers in some areas than they did in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. The other is that the relatively lighter turnout is in marked contrast to the near record turnout among black voters for candidate Obama in 2008 and President Obama in 2012.
Much shouldn’t be made of this for the simple fact that Clinton is not Obama. Clinton doesn’t need to match his total among black votes to win the White House. Clinton could never duplicate the euphoria that Obama generated among blacks. His candidacy was not seen as a candidacy, but a crusade — a history-making crusade. Blacks did not just see this as a chance to put a black president in office, but a chance to snatch a piece of history along the way.
Obama was seen not as a distant, remote, traditional presidential candidate, but almost as a family member — someone to embrace and take personal pride in their accomplishments. Many blacks in the past were apathetic, lethargic and indifferent to the political process because they thought their vote made no difference, or because of their antipathy to the Democrats, whom they accused of plantationism for taking the black vote for granted and giving little in return.
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