Hillary Clinton Moves To 4-Point Edge Over Trump: Poll

Washington, Nov 8: With one day before Election Day, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has a four percentage-point lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, according to the final Fox News national pre-election poll of likely voters.

Clinton's ahead by 48-44 percent, while Libertarian Gary Johnson received 3 percent and Green Party's Jill Stein 2 percent, the poll showed.

In the two-way race, Clinton led Trump by 48-44 percent.

Clinton led among women by 12 points (52-40 percent), African-Americans by 85 (89-4 percent), Hispanics by 33 (63-30 percent), and voters under 30 by 16 (51-35 percent).

In the poll, Trump was favored among men by 5 points (48-43 percent), whites by 17 (54-37 percent), white evangelical Christians by 63 (78-15 per cent), and whites without a college degree by 31 (61-30 percent).

Trump was ahead of Clinton among veterans by 56-38 percent. She led with first-time voters, by 48-42 percent, the poll showed.

According to the poll, nine per cent of Republicans supported Clinton which was more than twice the number of Democrats backing Trump (four per cent).

Clinton garnered more support among Democrats (91 percent) than Trump does among Republicans (86 percent).

This Fox News Poll was based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,410 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted from November 3-6, 2016.

The survey includes results among 1,295 likely voters.

The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points for results among both registered voters and likely voters.

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