It was up from Clinton's four percentage point edge in an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted 10 days ago. Trump held a small 47-43 percent lead among white Americans, a group that Republican Mitt Romney won by 20 points in the 2012 election. Clinton leads 55-35 percent among women, and has doubled her lead to 32 points among college-educated white women -- a group strongly critical of Trump's response to allegations of inappropriate behavior. The poll even showed Clinton leading for the first time among men, 44 to 41 percent -- although that lead is within the poll's margin of error. “Secretary Clinton at the beginning of this campaign said she wanted to help all candidates up and down the ballot.

Source: Sunday Times October 23, 2016 15:11 UTC