Vanderbilt poll: Trump leads Clinton in Tennessee by 11 percent

Privacy booths await early voters at the North River Civic Center in Hixson. Late Tuesday afternoon, Elections Programer Nathan Foster makes sure computers and network are set up and ready for today. "North River is a new location," Foster said. "Previously, it had been somewhere inside Northgate Mall. Now we have a stable location at the center. We're working with the city of Chattanooga to use this facility for as far as we can see," he said.
There are four Hamilton County early voting locations: Eastwood Church in Collegedale, Brainerd Recreation Complex, North River Civic Center and the Hamilton County Election Commission office at Amnicola Highway, according to Foster. — Privacy booths await early voters at the North River Civic Center in Hixson. Late Tuesday afternoon, Elections Programer Nathan Foster makes sure computers and network are set up and ready for today. "North River is a new location," Foster said. "Previously, it had been somewhere inside Northgate Mall. Now we have a stable location at the center. We're working with the city of Chattanooga to use this facility for as far as we can see," he said. There are four Hamilton County early voting locations: Eastwood Church in Collegedale, Brainerd Recreation Complex, North River Civic Center and the Hamilton County Election Commission office at Amnicola Highway, according to Foster.

By Andy Sher October 7, 2016 4 min read

In this Monday, Oct. 3, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, in Loveland, Colo. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

NASHVILLE – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton here in GOP-friendly Tennessee by 11 percent with the help of women, independents, suburban and college-educated voters, according to a new Vanderbilt University poll.

Trump, the billionaire businessman and former reality star, bests former Secretary of State Clinton by 44 percent to 33 percent among voters surveyed in the Vanderbilt poll, the survey’s directors, John Geer and Josh Clinton, said Thursday.

Seventy-three percent of Trump supporters here say they’re angry versus just 13 percent for Clinton. But 66 percent of voters who said they are “basically content” favor Clinton.

The political science professors say at this point nothing short of a catastrophe could stop Trump from winning Tennessee. The GOP nominee has struggled in some battleground states with the same groups he leads Clinton with in Tennessee.

Seven percent of the 1,000 registered voters surveyed in the poll, conducted Sept. 19 through Sunday, said they back Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson. One percent said they would vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Five percent said they backed another candidate or would not vote, while 7 percent said just short of a month before the Nov. 8 election that they still don’t know how they’ll cast their ballot.