ANOTHER POLL SHOWS TRUMP LEAD – AT 7:03 A.M. ET:  This comes a day after the Fox poll showed Trump leading Clinton.  From Rasmussen:

Donald Trump has now grown his lead over Hillary Clinton in Rasmussen Reports’ first weekly White House Watch survey.

Trump earns 42% support to Clinton’s 37% when Likely U.S. Voters are asked whom they would vote for if the presidential election were held today. But Rasmussen Reports’ latest national telephone survey finds that 13% prefer some other candidate, while seven percent (7%) are undecided.

At the beginning of this month, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, posted a statistically insignificant 41% to 39% lead over Clinton who is still expected to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Fifteen percent (15%) favored someone else, and five percent (5%) were undecided.

And...

Trump now gets 76% of the Republican vote, while Clinton has 72% Democratic support. Thirteen percent (13%) of Democrats prefer Trump, while nine percent (9%) of GOP voters favor Clinton. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Trump leads 41% to 28%, but 31% of these voters either like another candidate or are undecided.

COMMENT:  These are very early polls, and obviously can change dramatically.  But I'm quite amazed by the fact that Donald Trump, not exactly the image of the dignified statesman, is leading Hillary Clinton, who has been a national figure for 25 years.  It shows Hillary's weakness.  The Bernie Sanders faction will use these polls, and may use them effectively, to demand quite a bit of influence at the Democratic convention.

May 20,  2016