Democrats might have thought that Donald Trump’s unorthodox campaign and off-the-cuff comments would give Hillary Clinton the keys to the White House, but polls are showing voters are willing to go third party — even in blue states.
In a four-way race among Trump, Clinton, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein in Connecticut, where President Obama won by 17 percent, the former Secretary of State has a mere 5-point lead, according to a Quinnipiac poll released on Tuesday.
Despite Clinton all but winning the nomination, she cannot reassemble the Obama coalition. That has fragmented and its members have instead supported third party candidates or chosen not to vote.
Only 47 percent of millennials say they plan to vote for Clinton, while 25 percent say they’ll cast their ballot for Trump, 7 percent for Johnson, 6 percent for Stein, and 15 percent said they wouldn’t vote or were unsure whether they’ll vote.
Clinton also falls short of Obama’s numbers among white and non-white voters. She’s losing white voters by 7 points when Obama won them by 3 percent, and losing a third of non-whites despite Obama winning almost 90 percent of their votes.
Given the opportunity to vote for the two major party’s candidates, almost 20 percent of voters pass on it. That’s very good news for Trump.
