Poll: Clinton up 7 on Trump in Michigan

Hillary Clinton has a 7-point edge over Donald Trump in Michigan as they race for the presidency, according to a new poll.

The Democratic nominee leads her Republican rival 44 percent to 37 percent among likely voters in the Suffolk University survey out Thursday.

{mosads}Ten percent remain undecided in Michigan, which has voted for the Democratic nominee in the past six presidential elections.

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson ranks third, with 5 percent, followed by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, with 3 percent.

Michigan’s ballot also includes Darrell Castle and Emidio “Mimi” Soltysik, third-party candidates each polling below 1 percent.

“Michigan is a state that [President] Barack Obama won by nine points,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, of the 2012 election.

“Hillary Clinton, with a seven-point lead, appears strongest in the manufacturing base of a state that turned from Republican to Democratic after its auto industry began to decline in the 1980s.”

Pollsters found that Michigan’s likely voters have deep concerns over their major-party options, however.

Sixty-three percent say Clinton is untrustworthy, compared with 37 percent who say she is trustworthy.

Fifty-three percent have little trust in Trump, and 47 percent find the GOP presidential nominee honest.

Pollsters additionally found respondents are anxious about the election in general.

Sixty-one percent say the 2016 race alarms them, compared with 20 percent who said it excites and 11 percent whom it bores.

Suffolk University conducted its latest sampling of 500 likely voters in Michigan via telephone interviews Aug. 22–24. It has a 4.4 percentage point margin of error.

Clinton leads Trump by about 7 points in Michigan, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls there.

Clinton’s advantage narrows nationwide, however, leading Trump by 6 points in the same index.