Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democrats' presidential front-runner, is tied with one of the GOP's leading candidates, Ben Carson, according to a new
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll.
According to the poll released Tuesday, Clinton and Carson each would garner 47 percent of the vote in a theoretical head-to-head matchup. The other GOP front-runner, Donald Trump, would lose to Clinton, as would other GOP candidates.
Clinton: 50 percent
Trump: 42 percent
Clinton: 47 percent
Marco Rubio: 44 percent
Clinton: 47 percent
Jeb Bush: 43 percent
Carson's stronger standing against Clinton is his higher favorability about independents, NBC News reported.
Among independents:
- Carson: 47 percent
- Clinton: 37 percent
- Rubio: 42 percent
- Clinton 35 percent
- Bush: 41 percent
- Clinton: 37 percent
- Trump: 43 percent
- Clinton 39 percent
The poll was conducted October 25-29 among 847 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.4 percentage points.