Clinton Ties Trump In Georgia, Iowa

A newly-released set of polls has found that Hillary Clinton has tied Donald Trump in Iowa and is just barely behind him in Georgia, two states that strongly favored the GOP nominee earlier in the race.

According to the Quinnipiac University swing state polls, released on October 27, Clinton and Trump are dead even in Iowa, where each polled at 44 percent, with 88 percent of each’s respective party committing to vote for them and an even split among independent voters. Meanwhile, in Georgia, the former secretary of state trailed the Republican candidate by one point in Georgia, with 43 percent to his 44 percent.

Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson polled at eight percent in Georgia but hit low-single digits in the other states polled, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein took in two percent support in Virginia but is not on the ballot in the other states.

Trump had been looking to carry the Hawkeye state, which has voted for Democrats in six of the last seven presidential elections but had strongly favored him in the polls earlier in the election cycle, notes the Wall Street Journal. Iowa, a state full of non-college-educated white voters, represents the demographics who support Trump the most strongly. But Clinton has eclipsed Trump’s lead in the state, as she has done in Georgia, a state that rarely supports non-Southern Democrats.

“Time is running out and Donald Trump has lost his leads and now is tied with Hillary Clinton in Iowa and Georgia,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. “North Carolina appears to be moving in her direction also.”

Quinnipiac’s North Carolina poll found Clinton leading with 50 percent to Trump’s 44 percent. Still the unpredictable nature of the presidential race so far and the unpopularity of both candidates has left some experts flummoxed.

“As in all the states surveyed by Quinnipiac University, negative favorability ratings dog both candidates, said another of the poll’s assistant directors, Tim Malloy. “While Hillary Clinton has a slight lead among early voters, this race looks like it will come down to the wire.”

Sources: Quinnipiac University, Wall Street Journal / Photo Credit: Alex Lee/Wikimedia Commons