Posted on 11/04/2018 10:58:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump's late campaign blitz targeting immigrants has rallied the Republican base of white working-class voters, helping to curb the Democratic advantage heading into Tuesday's midterm elections for Congress.
The election-eve NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Democrats leading by seven percentage points, 50 percent to 43 percent, among likely voters. That's down from a nine-percentage point lead last month.
That slightly narrowing reflects rising interest in the election from the foundation of Trump's support: White men, especially older, less educated, less affluent ones in small towns and rural areas. Most noteworthy for a mid-term election, the 2018 campaign has seized the attention of voters at presidential-campaign levels — and Trump has helped Republicans wipe out the advantage Democrats held earlier in the campaign.
"There has been some method to his madness," said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who conducts the NBC/WSJ survey with his Democratic counterpart Peter Hart. "The base is coming home."
The results presage the possibility of a split verdict on Tuesday. With many battleground House races taking place in more affluent suburbs, the unusual Trump-era advantage Democrats continue to maintain among college-educated whites — especially women — represent a strong sign for their prospects of gaining or exceeding the 23-seat gain they need to recapture the majority.
But in the less-populated, more conservative states that will decide control of the Senate, the late campaign trend brightens Republican prospects. Needing a two-seat gain to recapture a majority, Democrats must defend incumbents in states such as Missouri, Indiana and North Dakota where the Trump base looms larger.
"Republicans have clearly made progress," McInturff said. One key indicator: the Democratic edge among independent voters has dipped to nine percentage points from 14 percent last month, reflecting fresh uncertainty among less-affluent white men.
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“white,old,poor,uneducated bumpkin....”
“I resemble that remark”—The Three Stooges in film Idle Roomers.
God must have loved us ‘cause He made so many of us. And all voting for the GOP to help Trump Tuesday.
MAGA
Does that include Don Lemonade’s boyfriend?
The Liberal Media, the pollsters, and the Democrats should have learned this lesson in 2016. Just ask President Hillary Clinton.
If those expert pollsters weren’t good then Hillary wouldn’t be President today.
Uh, wait, let me recheck the World Almanac about that result.
While I’m old and live in a metropolitan area, I have 4 college degrees, 9 children, own a couple million in real estate and have two homes; I’m just a country bumpkin. Yep, I’m definitely one of those Trump voters clinging to my guns and scriptures.
Don Lemonade said they are terrorists....
Unless, of course, Don is an empty headed incompetent fool who should never have been hired and promoted due to affirmative action over someone with a mind. Then it’s BS.
Can’t wait for John Harwoods tears Tuesday night. To the extent republicans consent to be polled, many lie, specifically to inflate democrat confidence. It keeps them from manufacturing votes and “finding” uncounted ballots in car trunks. Plus, it makes democrat despair even sweeter.
seeya on Tuesday, Commies
Great line.
As Bill Cunningham says “That really puts the cheese on the cracker.”
Maybe we bumpkins for Trump should accidentally forget to pay any taxes or do any farm work, drive semis or show up for full time jobs.
How long would the metrosexuals and sophisticated mama’s boys playing video games in the bedroom in mom’s basement last?
48 hours later:”Mom, I said what’s for dinner? Didn’t you hear me? I’m hungry.”
“White men, especially older, less educated, less affluent ones...”
uhh huh...keep telling yourself that...
besides we may have the “uneducated vote” (meaning highly skilled tradesman, that didn’t get a useless fluff degree), but that is infinitely better than having the illiterate vote which the dhimmicrats have a 99.9% lock on.
Yeah they are trying to paint Trump supporters as old uneducated white racists. Well I may be old and white, but I have a lot more education than these snowflake reporters and poll takers. And I got my education when they actually taught students to think.
Propaganda is neither good nor bad just effective or ineffective. People should be able to see the propaganda in the headline. The headline leaves the impression that Trumps base is abandoning him, returning home to the democratic party, resulting in a 7 point lead for the democrats. Their propaganda is ineffective; the author of this tripe should give up propaganda and start writing fantasy fiction.
Well, the “Trump tax cuts” haven’t helped us at all, frankly.
WTF is a generic ballot???? the media is talking about a fart in the wind
Yeah, and all of the fake news and fake polls in 2016 ensured that the Hildebeest won. Right?
I’ve had a lot of polling calls this time around. I usually try to cut to the chase when they go down the list of candidates by telling the caller that there is no democrat living or dead for whom I would ever vote.
Keep the MAGA train moving. Vote red all the way down the ballot on Tuesday.
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The Trump base never left!
national generic polls are completely meaningless for Congressional elections ...
The Democrats are trying to wipe out free-thinking whites.
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