Clinton Leads Trump in Campaign Ground Games - Poll

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has a substantial lead over her rival Republican Donald Trump so far when it comes to their campaigns’ ground games, a new poll revealed.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Seventeen percent said they were contacted by Clinton’s campaign than Trump’s 8 percent, the poll stated, adding that another 9 percent said they were contacted by both campaigns.

“Hillary Clinton has a substantial edge over Donald Trump so far when it comes to their campaigns’ respective ground games, a new Morning Consult/POLITICO exit poll of nearly 10,000 voters shows,” the poll said Tuesday.

The data also compared Clinton’s ground game with President Obama’s in 2008, when, according to the National Election Pool, 13 percent of voters said they’d heard from his campaign, while 6 percent said they had heard from Obama’s Republican rival Senator John McCain, the poll stated.

The poll also compared voters in terms of age, Clinton making the most contact with the youngest voters aged 18-34, reaching 28 percent of them, compared to Trump’s 9 percent, adding that Trump’s campaign made contact with as much as Clinton’s were voters aged 65 or older.

Twenty one percent of voters said they were casting their vote partly to show support for Obama, while 19 percent expressed they were doing so for opposition, the poll said, also noting that more than half the voters said it was not a factor.

Sixty nine percent said they expect Clinton to follow Obama’s footsteps if she wins compared to 20 percent who think she would take the country in a different path, the poll revealed.