--- title: This Is the Presidential Candidate Top Earners Are More Likely to Back description: A new poll finds that voters with incomes of $100,000 or more favor Hillary Clinton. authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Economy and Politics - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology published: '2016-09-21T14:27:29.000Z' modified: '2016-09-21T14:27:29.000Z' section: Economy and Politics tags: - 2016 Election - Donald Trump - Election 2016 - Hillary Clinton - pubdesk word_count: 258 canonical: https://money.com/top-earners-presidential-candidate-choice/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![clinton-rich](https://img.money.com/2016/09/clinton-rich.jpeg) For literally decades, the GOP has been the party of big business and big money. Now, it looks as though the tide may be turning. Like everything else unusual and unexpected about this presidential campaign, the results of a new poll show a distinct shift in the political preferences of America's richest voters. Specifically, more of them would prefer to be saying, “Mrs. President” come November. According to a new Bloomberg Politics Purple Slice online [poll](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-09-21/purple-poll) conducted between September 16 -19, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 4 percentage points, 46% to 42%, in a two-way matchup, among likely voters with household incomes of $100,000 or higher. That might not sound like a lot, but it’s a pretty seismic shift. Bloomberg noted this is bad news for Trump, since this group comprises 28% of the electorate, and it's a group whose support would have been a sure thing until this election cycle. In 2012, Mitt Romney carried this voter group with a 10 percentage point lead over President Obama. The new poll also showed that Clinton held her lead against Trump when the race was split four ways: She got 41% to Trump's 37%, with 11% going to either Gary Johnson or Jill Stein and another 10% unsure. That, combined with the poll's 4% margin of error, still means the race could go either way, but it's a big departure from the norm. And it's telling that 56% of poll respondents said they believed, regardless of how they are voting personally, that Clinton will be the next president. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/top-earners-presidential-candidate-choice/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Economy and Politics", "item": "https://money.com/economy-and-politics/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Wealth", "item": "https://money.com/wealth/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "This Is the Presidential Candidate Top Earners Are More Likely to Back" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/top-earners-presidential-candidate-choice/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/top-earners-presidential-candidate-choice/", "name": "This Is the Presidential Candidate Top Earners Are More Likely to Back", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-09-21T14:27:29.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/top-earners-presidential-candidate-choice/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/top-earners-presidential-candidate-choice/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2016-09-21T14:27:29.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "This Is the Presidential Candidate Top Earners Are More Likely to Back", "articleSection": "Economy and Politics", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/09/clinton-rich.jpeg", "width": 4000, "height": 2667, "caption": "clinton-rich" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha C. 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