Story highlights A poll of Missouri residents likely to vote in the 2016 election found that 44% support Trump

His one percentage point lead is much closer than the traditionally red state was in 2012

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton by a single percentage point in Missouri, according to a Monmouth University poll released Tuesday.

The survey found that 44% of voters support Trump, while 43% back Clinton, well within the poll's margin of error of 4.9 percentage points. Another 8% of respondents told pollsters they intend to vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson, 1% said they would write in another candidate,and the remaining 5% were undecided.

The poll is one of the first snapshot of voters in Missouri -- a state that has remained red during the past four presidential elections -- since the July conventions.

"The race was a squeaker the last time there was a vacancy in the Oval Office," Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray said in a statement. "In that respect, this year looks more like 2008 than 2012 when Romney won the state by ten points."

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