[MNJohnnie]

Congressional districts are gerrymandered. Looking at the Generic ballot is a waste of time. 1st off, about 55% of the people polled in these do NOT vote. 2nd, you have no notion of where the people are. If the Dems win their districts 70-30 while Repbs squeek by 51-49 the generic polls can be accurate but also totally misleading. MOST Congressional districts are Red.

It is about turn out. What do you suppose happens to Republican turnout if we go into the election with everyone all convinced it is all over but the crying?

Really odd thing about these "News Media" polls. Republicans are either in desperate trouble or tied EVERY election year. Democrats are NEVER in trouble in them ever. That seems a bit odd.

[Thermalseeker]

What do you suppose happens to Republican turnout if we go into the election with everyone all convinced it is all over but the crying?

What really, really puzzles me is the number of Republican pundants who have already thrown in the towel. Given the inaccuracy of the polling in the last couple of elections, and comparing that polling to the current election polling, at this point it looks like a 'Pubbie landslide in the works to me......

[beckysueb]

Democrats are NEVER in trouble in them ever.

But yet they always lose. That is a bit odd.

[nwrep]

Really odd thing about these "News Media" polls. Republicans are either in desperate trouble or tied EVERY election year. Democrats are NEVER in trouble in them ever. That seems a bit odd.

Not quite true. The 1994 pre-election polls showed the Dems in big trouble. So did the 1980 polls. Both times the GOP delivered historic victories.