Clinton Leads in Media Polls

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

There is a lot of Hillary Clinton blue in the RealClearPolitics chart of Nov. 7 presidential polls conducted by the major broadcast and cable media outlets.

In the four-way race—which includes Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein—NBC News-SurveyMonkey has Clinton with a six-point lead over Republican Donald Trump at 47% to 41% nationally. CBS News has Clinton with a four-point lead, 45% to 41% for Trump. Fox News also has Clinton up four points at 48% to 44%, as does the ABC-Washington Post poll, with Clinton at 47% and Trump 43%.

"Today we make America great again," Trump tweeted early Tuesday morning. "Let’s go make some history today," Clinton Tweeted.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.