In the race for US Senator in Pennsylvania, Democratic challenger Katie McGinty has taken a four-point lead on Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) in a new Monmouth poll. Monmouth is rated A+ by 538.com.
McGinty, a former member of the Bill Clinton administration, leads Toomey, 45-41, with Libertarian candidate Edward Clifford polling at 6 percent among likely Pennsylvania voters.
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by eight percentage points.
Clinton, the poll found, has a 10-point lead among college-educated whites, traditionally a strong Republican voting bloc. Trump leads 57-32 among whites without college degrees.
The biggest gap came among racial groups: 90 percent of Pennsylvania blacks, Hispanics and Asians support Clinton, while 5 percent back Trump. Among whites, Trump leads 48-39.
Nationally, Clinton leads Trump by 7.
Barack Obama won non-white voters by 71 points while Mitt Romney took the white vote by 15 points. Trump is winning white men by 18 points (50% to 32%), but is virtually tied among white women (45% to 46% for Clinton). The GOP nominee is ahead among white voters without a college degree by 25 points (57% to 32%), but is trailing among college educated white voters by 10 points (37% to 47%). Four years ago, Romney won the votes of both white men (by 21 points) and white women (by 9 points). He also won the white vote by a similar margin regardless of education - by 13 points among non-graduates and by 15 points among those with a college degree.
The Monmouth poll surveyed 402 likely Pennsylvania voters from August 26 to 29.
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