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Clinton, Trump Dead Even in Final Florida Presidential Poll

November 6, 2016 - 8:45pm
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are locked in a dead heat in Florida in the final poll before Election Day on Tuesday.

A CBS News Battleground Tracker poll shows both Clinton and Trump in an even split with Florida voters, with each candidate taking 45 percent of the vote.

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson took four percent of the vote while Green Party candidate took one percent of the vote. 

The new poll has shown Trump winning over voters who were unsure of who they would support in this year’s election. 

Most Republicans have pledged their support for Trump as the clock winds down to Election Day -- 86 percent say they support Trump, up from 82 percent in a similar poll. Clinton also enjoys partisan support in the new poll, with 91 percent saying they support Clinton.

More than half of Florida voters -- 53 percent -- said they felt Clinton was part of what’s wrong with politics today, while 36 percent said they felt the same way about Trump.

Over half of voters say they have gotten tired of both Clinton and Trump this year, with 57 percent and 52 percent saying they feel that way, respectively.

Most respondents said they felt very motivated to vote this year, with 68 percent saying they couldn’t wait to vote. A small number -- 15 percent -- said they weren’t too motivated to vote or weren’t motivated but would do it anyway.

Most voters have already made up their minds about their candidates. Seventy percent of them said there wasn’t anything in these final days that could change their minds -- right now, they’re just rooting for their candidates. A much smaller amount -- 10 percent -- said there was still time to change their vote before Election Day. 

More than half of Florida voters said they wouldn’t be deterred by long lines at the polls. Fifty-eight percent said they’d be willing to wait as long as it takes to cast their votes. 

Thirty-one percent of those who said they might not, probably or definitely won’t vote said the main reason they weren’t casting their ballots was because they didn’t like the candidates.

Over the last few weeks, both candidates have made numerous campaign stops in the Sunshine State. Considered a “must-win” state, Florida carries 29 electoral votes and is about even with registered Republicans and Democrats. 

Over 6.1 million voters had cast their ballots as of Sunday morning. Voter turnout, however, has been slightly higher with Democrats in Florida, who had cast around 32,000 more votes than Republicans at the time of this article’s publication. 

This CBS News 2016 Battleground Tracker is a panel study based on 1,188 interviews conducted on the internet of registered voters in Florida Nov 2-4, 2016. The margin of error is +/- 3.6 percent.

 

Reach reporter Allison Nielsen by email at allison@sunshinestatenews.com or follow her on Twitter: @AllisonNielsen.

 

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