Hillary Clinton speaks during the final day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention on July 28, 2016, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. | Getty Poll: Clinton, Trump in virtual tie in Missouri

With campaigning set to ramp up post-conventions, a new poll puts Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in a dead heat in Missouri.

Clinton leads Trump by just a single point, 41 percent to 40 percent, in a fresh St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Mason-Dixon Polling & Research poll released Friday. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson earned 9 percent support from those polled, while another 9 percent said they were undecided.


Missouri had long been considered a national barometer in presidential elections, but that status has diminished somewhat after Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney won the state in overall losing efforts in 2008 and 2012, respectively. Before the two most recent presidential elections, Missouri went the way of the eventual general election winner in 12 consecutive presidential races dating back to John F. Kennedy’s victory in 1960.

Both candidates were viewed unfavorably by those polled: Forty-five percent said they hold an unfavorable view of Clinton, while 51 percent said they had an unfavorable opinion of Trump. Forty-two percent of those polled said they viewed the former secretary of state favorably, compared to just 33 percent for the Manhattan billionaire.

The poll was conducted July 23 and 24, after the Republican National Convention in Cleveland had finished and before its Democratic counterpart in Philadelphia had begun. It surveyed 625 registered Missouri voters via telephone who said they are likely to vote in November’s general election. The poll’s margin of error was plus-or-minus 4 percentage points.

