Poll: Nearly half say election is a source of stress

An ABC News poll released on Tuesday found that 46 percent of all likely voters say that the presidential election is a source of stress in their lives.

{mosads}The survey found that Republicans are about equally as stressed as Democrats, with a quarter of voters in both parties describing the stress as serious.

Women are also more likely to be stressed than men. The poll showed that while 51 percent of women found the election to be stressful, only 39 percent of men think the same.

The groups with the highest levels of stress were liberal Democrats at 57 percent and white evangelical Protestants at 56 percent.

The poll also showed the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with a 12-point lead over Republican Donald Trump, 50 percent to 38 percent. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson received 5 percent support, while the Green Party’s Jill Stein received just 2 percent.

The ABC poll surveyed a pool of 1,155 likely voters  between Oct. 20-23. The margin of error is 3 percent.