Poll: Clinton trails Trump by 1 point in Georgia

Hillary Clinton is trailing Donald Trump by just 1 point in reliably Republican Georgia, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.

{mosads}Among likely Georgia voters, Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, leads Clinton 44 percent to 43 percent, with Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson trailing with a distant 8 percent.

The poll also shows Clinton and Trump tied in Iowa at 44 percent each; a 4-point Clinton lead in North Carolina, 47 percent to 43 percent; and a 12-point lead for Clinton in Virginia, 50-38.

The Georgia numbers are a slight uptick for Clinton, the Democratic nominee, who has been trailing by an average of 3.3 points in recent statewide polls, according to RealClearPolitics.

No Democratic presidential candidate has won the Peach State, which has 16 electoral votes up for grabs, since 1992, when Bill Clinton edged out George H.W. Bush by less than 1 point.

That year, third-party candidate Ross Perot, who is widely believed to have siphoned much-needed votes from Bush, received about 13 percent of the Georgia vote.

The Quinnipiac poll surveyed 707 likely Georgia voters, with a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points; 791 likely Iowa voters, with a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points; 702 likely North Carolina voters, with a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points; and 749 likely Virginia voters, with a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points.

The poll was conducted Oct. 20–26.