Clinton Maintains Lead in Latest NBC/Survey Monkey Poll

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is holding on to her six point lead (47% to 41%) over Republican Donald Trump despite the announcement by FBI director James Comey last week that the FBI was looking into more e-mails that could be "pertinent" to the investigation of Clinton’s private e-mail server.

That is according to the latest NBC News/Survey Monkey tracking poll.

The finding came despite the fact that 55% of poll respondents of likely voters say it is an important issue. Forty-four percent say it is more a distraction.

The survey was conducted Oct. 24-30 online among a national sample of 40,816 likely voters.

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.