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Hillary Clinton
A month ago Democrat Hillary Clinton had a commanding lead in the polls in Michigan in the race for president. That has changed, reflecting a trend nationwide.
A new Free Press/WXYZ poll shows Republican Donald Trump has cut dramatically into Clinton's lead in Michigan, which hasn't backed a Republican presidential nominee since 1988, Todd Spangler of the Detroit Free Press reports.
Clinton, still leads Trump 38%-35% in Michigan, according to the poll done by Lansing-based EPIC-MRA for the Free Press, WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) and their outstate partners, the Freep reports. But that is within the poll’s 4-percentage-point margin of error, and a significant drop from her 11-point lead last month.
“The race is tightening a lot in Michigan,” Bernie Porn, EPIC-MRA’s pollster, tells the Freep. “It may be a function of the timing of the survey and her health questions, (but) there has been a shift toward Trump. Whether it’s going to be a permanent shift is yet to be determined.”
A poll by Fox News has Clinton ahead nationally by 1 point. A CBS/NY Times poll has them tied.
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight currently gives Clinton a 60 percent chance of winning.
