Gordon Friedman

Statesman Journal

A new poll of registered voters shows that Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 13 percentage points in Oregon — though both candidates claim surprisingly low popularity ratings among voters here.

The poll released Wednesday also shows that incumbent Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, holds an 8 percentage point lead over Republican challenger Dr. Bud Pierce.

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Both gubernatorial candidates are more popular with Oregonians than Clinton and Trump, according to the poll, which was conducted by DHM Research, a nonpartisan opinion research firm in Portland.

Though the presidential election is only two months away, Clinton and Trump combined are only supported by 63 percent of registered Oregon voters.

Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson is polling at 10 percent in Oregon, followed by Green Party nominee Jill Stein at 3 percent, with 8 percent saying they will vote for some other candidate. The rest — 17 percent — are undecided.

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John Horvick, vice president and political director of DHM Research, said in a statement that the poll's "shocker" is the "utter weakness" among the major party presidential candidates.

On the local front, no central issue is defining the statewide races. Poll respondents said the economy and schools are the most important issues to them.

Few respondents said issues like transportation infrastructure and the proposed corporate tax Measure 97 were important, despite those topics dominating statewide political debates in the last year.

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