COLUMBUS – As the major political parties prepare to raise the curtains on their national presidential nominating conventions, a new poll show Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are still locked in a dead heart among Ohio voters.
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The Quinnipiac University poll released found the two candidates tied, with 41 percent of voters favoring each of them, virtually unchanged from a poll in June when the two were deadlocked at 41 percent,
With a drop in grades on honesty and moral standards, Clinton lost an 8-point lead over Trump in Florida, and finds herself in too-close-to-call races in the three critical swing states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania.
The university polls voters in those three states periodically because, since 1960, no candidate has won the White House without winning at least two of them.
Neither candidate scores well on matters of character, with Clinton getting only a 35 percent favorability rating and Trump only 34 percent.
Disenchantment is in the air in the Buckeye State, where many voters say they are falling further and further behind economically and think it is time for “radical change.”
The poll broke down along racial and gender lines with white men backing Trump while non-white voters and women go for Clinton.
While voters give Clinton credit for being “prepared to be president,” having higher moral standards and being more intelligent, Trump gets the edge when it comes to being “honest and trustworthy.”
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The poll of 955 Ohio voters was conducted from June 30 to July 11 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.2 percent.