One poll, conducted by Marist College and sponsored by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News, showed Trump, a Republican, beating Clinton, a Democrat, 42 percent to 41 percent. The poll showed Clinton leading Trump by a margin of 49 percent to 43 percent among likely voters, a reversal from an FAU poll in August that gave Trump a two-point edge.

The polls - taken after the release of a 2005 recording of Donald Trump talking in a sexually aggressive manner about women - show Clinton leading in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

If Donald Trump wants to get to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he has to win the state of Pennsylvania first.

Now the average stands at 8.7 percent, with a smattering of polls showing that the former secretary of state's campaign has pulled away from the struggling Republican nominee.

According to the poll released by the PRRI/The Atlantic last Tuesday, Oct. 11, Clinton has increased her lead over Trump.

The poll came amid a hard week for Trump.

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Clinton was leading in other OH polls conducted this week, but she had a margin of only a couple of points.

As was the case in Pennsylvania, the MI poll found that likely voters were turned-off by the Trump tape. She's also leading overall in North Carolina, but her margins weren't very large there either.

The results of the two new surveys differ dramatically from those of another previously released poll that was conducted during the same time. The chart shows Clinton is only slightly ahead Trump by 0.4 percent.

Clinton also holds a big lead in the Hispanic poll, winning support from 52 percent of voters compared to 33 percent for Trump.

A Y2 Analytics poll, published Wednesday by Mormon church-owned Deseret News, found both Clinton and Trump at 26%, with McMullin at 22% and Johnson at 14%.

The poll suggests a virtual tie, because it's margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.