user: Q: Poll: Clinton opens up double-digit lead over Trump

Hillary Clinton now holds a 10-point lead over Donald Trump, 51 percent to 41 percent, according to results from the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll

Clinton's double-digit lead is up from an 8-point gap last week. The 10-point margin is the biggest spread in the tracking poll since the two-way general election match-up was first compared in early May.

Clinton also holds a 6-point advantage in a four-way general election match-up at 44 percent, with Trump at 38 percent, Libertarian Gary Johnson at 10 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 4 percent.

Last week, Clinton's lead jumped from 1 point to 8 points following her party's convention, but the real question was whether this bounce would last. The latest tracking poll results indicate that Clinton's traction over Trump has not slipped.

Over the past four weeks, Trump has lost support from core Republican voters. In previous weeks, the Republican nominee dominated Clinton among men. This week, however, Trump's margin over Clinton among men is only 5 points, down from a 16-point margin two weeks ago. A large gender gap in American elections is common; although Mitt Romney lost the presidential election in 2012 he still won men by 7 points, according to NBC News Exit Polls.

The gender gap is somewhat expected, but while support among men for Trump has shrunk over the past several weeks, Clinton's support among women has widened. Clinton has consistently done better than Trump among women and this week her advantage among women is 24 points, up from a 14-point margin two weeks ago.

Trump also regularly has an advantage among white men. Trump has been 23 points ahead of Clinton among white men over the past two weeks, 58 percent to 35 percent. But that support is down from a 31-point margin among white men in Trump's favor during the week of the Republican National Convention.

Voters without a college degree went from supporting Trump by a 9-point margin in the beginning of July to supporting Clinton by a 4-point margin this week. This is a very large shift. Last week's results showed voters without a college degree supported Clinton over Trump by 2 points, 47 percent to 45 percent. This week that gap has continued to widen among that group — 48 percent support Clinton and 44 percent support Trump.

White evangelicals are traditionally a very strong voting bloc for Republicans. Trump lost momentum even among that group. He went from a 60-point advantage in early July to a 49-point advantage in the latest results — 71 percent to 22 percent. While an overwhelming majority of white evangelicals still support him, the decline in support among that group is evidence that Trump has lost traction even among the most steadfast Republican demographic groups.

RELATED: RCP poll average - Clinton vs. Trump

The latest tracking poll results suggest that Trump has slipped considerably with a few key Republican voting blocs. Any comeback in the polls for Trump will certainly require him to win back these important Republican voters.

The NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll was conducted online August 1 through August 7, 2016 among a national sample of 11,480 adults who say they are registered to vote. Respondents for this non-probability survey were selected from the nearly three million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day. Results have an error estimate of plus or minus 1.2 percentage points. For full results and methodology, click here.
What are the most important parts of this text?

A: The 10-point margin is the biggest spread in the tracking poll since the two-way general election match-up was first compared in early May.


Driver was sexting moments before deadly Calif. car crash

Sexting may have caused a fatal freeway collision in California that left one driver dead and another injured two years ago, it was revealed Tuesday.

The motorist who allegedly caused the four-car pileup had exchanged raunchy text messages with his girlfriend, who teased him saying she wanted his tongue, just moments before the deadly crash, CBS News reported.

"We will be having sex all day," Dino Morris's girlfriend, Schunnese, texted him on the morning of the accident. "Sex, sex, sex, sex."

Morris, who was a State Transportation Department driver at the time, plowed into a car, triggering the chain reaction that crushed and killed Rogelio Torres on Oct. 9, 2013, the news station said.

Morris responded by calling his girlfriend a "nasty a--" about 8 a.m.

"Uuuuuu love it," she replies, according to the conversation obtained by CBS.

"I want ur tongue," she said two minutes before the wreck.

Morris said he didn't remember any of the messages in a deposition also obtained by the news station.

But attorneys representing others hurt in the crash say the driver may have been distracted by the series of sexy texts.

"It was the strongest impact I've ever felt in a car," victim Cheryl Durbin told CBS. "It was unstoppable."

The forced flipped her car upside down, said Durbin who broke several bones and had a collapsed lung.

Morris, who was fired from his state job, was spotted by a CBS news team behind the wheel of a dump truck on the same highway where the crash happened.

He declined to comment when approached by a reporter.

Summary: Sexting may have caused a fatal freeway collision in California that left one driver dead, it was revealed Tuesday.


IN: New Risks at Rural Hospitals
Arlene Thomas chose to have her May 2013 knee replacement close to home, at a small hospital in rural Neillsville, Wis.

Seven days later, she died of a heart attack at a bigger hospital 30 miles away in Marshfield, according to billing and medical documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal. A doctor there noted that the attack was likely a...
What is a short summary of the above article?

OUT:

assistant: Financial incentives are leading small rural hospitals to perform more surgeries, posing new risks for patients.