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Hillary Clinton emerges from her party's convention in Philadelphia with a restored lead over Donald Trump, having earned a 7-point convention bounce, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll.

In a two-way head-to-head matchup, Clinton tops Trump 52 percent to 43 percent, and in a four-way matchup including third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, Clinton leads 45 percent to 37 percent with Johnson at 9 percent and Stein at 5 percent.
Besides improving her standing against Trump, Clinton's convention appears to have boosted the share of Americans who think her policies will move the country in the right direction (from 43 percent before either convention to 48 percent now), while Trump's right direction number held roughly steady following the back-to-back political gatherings in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
Further, a majority of Clinton's backers now say their vote is more to show support for her than to oppose Trump, a sharp shift since early May. Back then, 48 percent said their vote was one of support for the former secretary of state, 58 percent say so now. While Trump also improved his numbers on that metric, his voters are more evenly divided, with 47 percent saying they're backing him to show support and 50 percent saying it's more to oppose Clinton.

More of Clinton's backers also say they are certain to support her come November: 44 percent of registered voters are Clinton supporters who say their mind is made up, while 36 percent say they are solidly behind Trump. Only about 16 percent of voters say their minds could change in the 99 days left between now and Election Day.
Clinton's convention appears to have helped her reverse the damage done to perceptions of her honesty during the GOP convention, but she did not improve those numbers compared with where they stood before either convention. Overall, 34 percent say they consider Clinton honest and trustworthy, up from 30 percent after the GOP convention but exactly where that figure was in a poll conducted before either convention happened.