Making sense of the new polls seven weeks from Election Day
A slew of new national and swing-state polls have come out in the past 24 hours — particularly from battleground Pennsylvania — and they tell three consistent storylines after last week’s presidential debate.
A slew of new national and swing-state polls have come out in the past 24 hours — particularly from battleground Pennsylvania — and they tell three consistent storylines after last week’s presidential debate.
First: Democrats are in a stronger polling position today than they’ve been this entire year, thanks to the party’s change at the top of its presidential ticket.
Second: The battleground map looks more favorable for Democrats than it had been previously. That’s especially true in the important Great Lakes swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
And third: The presidential contest remains close, with most of these national and state poll results well within the margins of error. Whatever movement there has been, we are a long way from one party or the other clearly breaking this race wide open.
Let’s look first at the latest national polls.
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