Posted on 10/30/2014 8:16:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It takes a while to get to this data in the CBS News report, as the Washington Examiner and Twitchy point out, but it’s real — and perhaps spectacular. One has to read to the ninth paragraph for CBS to get to the point of its latest and last national midterm poll, which takes burying the lede to a new and amusing level. What other data would a national media outlet survey five days before the midterms? The headline reads, “What Americans think of Congress and the President,” which is as generic a headline for a national political poll as one could possibly write. Why not use “We talked to a lot of people about politics and this is what they told us”?
So what did they tell CBS? Let’s go to paragraph nine and pick up the actual news:
Republicans continue to hold a lead in the national Congressional ballot test: 47 percent of likely voters say they will support the Republican candidate in their district, while 40 percent support the Democrat.
About nine in ten Republicans, and a similar percentage of Democrats, say they support their party’s candidate for the House of Representatives. Independents are supporting the Republican candidate.
Thirty-two percent of voters are paying a lot of attention to the campaign, a figure that has steadily risen since September, and is similar to the percentage who said the same four years ago.
Four in ten voters say they are more enthusiastic about voting this year compared to past elections. Forty-seven percent say they are less enthusiastic, up 13 points from the 34 percent who said that in October 2010. Republican voters (48 percent) are more likely than Democratic voters (42 percent) to say they are more enthusiastic.
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Here’s hoping for ANOTHER 700 legislative seats then, haha!
Looks like a wave election.
The polls are underestimating potential Republican gains.
I’d love to see Obama buried beneath a national GOP tsunami next week.
It would be one for the history books.
The Shellacking II: Electric Boogaloo
The elections are not over until the last absentee ballot has been counted.
But the polls don't account for cheating, which amounts to around 10%.
Dems don’t have to turn out to win when the machines take Pub votes and turn them to D votes.
I remember the same level of naive optimism from conservative pundits and pollsters heading into the 2012 election. The still don’t account for the level of widespread electoral fraud that the Dems are very capable of. So went Florida, so went the national on 2012.
Well......that is only going to happen if each and every Republican, Conservative, Independent, Freeper voter turns out and actually votes for every Pubbie Candidate on the the ballot. It is a simple as that!!! I have done my bit preaching for “all” to turn out and vote!!!
You can lead some horses to water.....but, you cannot make them drink!!! You clearly see that negative mantra every day on “Free Republic”, coming from “naysayer” Freepers and Democrat “trolls” posing as Freepers!!!
I’m skeptical after 2012, but even the analysts who were right in 2012 (Nate Silver, e.g.) are projecting that the GOP will take the Senate and gain some seats in the House.
Another wave is coming, despite the stories being printed by the Press to discount it.
We aren’t talking about 2012 we are talking about 2010, but you guys always want to talk about the losses, never the wins.
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