Posted on 02/14/2018 3:40:22 PM PST by SMGFan
On Tuesday, Politico and Morning Consult published a poll showing Republicans ahead of Democrats by one point in the generic ballot. This is an improvement for the GOP—Morning Consult put Democrats ahead by four in its last two polls and had them up by 10 in December. The poll also shows Trump with a 47 percent approval rating (equal to his disapproval rating) and is, on the whole, one of the best polls Republicans have seen in a while.
So does this poll prove that Republicans are now ahead in the race for the House and Trump is popular? No.
But it does emphasize one of the key dynamics of the race for control of the House so far—that the race has generally been trending towards Republicans for more than a month, even though Democrats still have an overall better position in the polls.
Since the new year, the Democratic edge in generic ballot polls has been diminishing. On January 1 of this year, Democrats held a 12.9 point edge in the RealClearPolitics average, but as of this morning that advantage had dropped to 6.7 points. FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls showed a similar drop—the Democratic advantage went from 12.9 points on January 1, to 7.1 points as of this morning.
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Wait until September when we see who the primaries winners are in many open seats.
“Shock” how?
Who can be surprised by this after 47 million Americans witnessed the Democrats’ hate at the SOTU? Were they not disgustingly disrespectful & rude? What do they even stand for anymore?
IMHO, they shot themselves in the foot. Who wants to buy into that program?
This is a shock to the liberals, who expected 2018 to be a big year for Democrats.
It’s an uphill climb now for them to take back the House.
Notice how nobody is talking anymore about the Democrats taking the Senate??
everyone is using shock.
SHOCK New Poll Could Shake Up the 2018 GOP Outlook
It’s only one poll, but it confirms a trend we’ve been seeing a while. The tax bill has done a lot to make the right comfortable with re-electing Republicans to the Congress, after months of dismal failures.
Politico is a hard left outfit, but their poll has Republicans taking the lead 39-38 in the generic ballot. Before the tax bill, Democrats had a 13 point lead in the poll average, and the poll average remains D+6.6 going into today.
https://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2018/02/14/shock-new-poll-shake-2018-gop-outlook/
How did those recent special elections go? Haven’t heard much about them.
Author: DAVID BYLER.
Fueled by Hatred and George Soros, Dems Are Quietly Winning Elections
R’s will do worse in Ca. NY. Because of tax bill, worse in Fl with 400000 new Puerto Rican voters. Dems could take the house.
Don’t believe it. George Soros is pouring money into local races!!! Democrat-Communist pay ops so that we get complacent.
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