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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Wed Aug 15, 2018, 12:08 PM Aug 2018

**More good polling news** CNN -Democratic advantage grows in race for Congress, now lead 52% -41%

Democrats now lead Republicans by 52% to 41% in a nationwide generic Congressional ballot according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS and released Tuesday. The blue lead has increased slightly from eight percentage points in June of this year to an 11 percentage point difference in the most recent poll.

Despite Democrats' advantage on that measure, a plurality (48%) in the same poll believe Republicans will maintain control of Congress after the election, compared with 40% who believe Democrats will gain control.
Among those who favor the Democratic candidate in their district, 64% say they think Democrats will ultimately win control of Congress, while among those backing Republican candidates, 83% think the GOP will maintain control.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/politics/democratic-generic-ballot-advantage/index.html





With those numbers we definitely recapture the House, have a better than 50% chance of winning the Senate, and picking up 10 gubernatorial seats. The gubernatorial seats are a plus. So many Americans would be freed from the yoke of Russian tyranny.


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**More good polling news** CNN -Democratic advantage grows in race for Congress, now lead 52% -41% (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 OP
Do not get complacent. nycbos Aug 2018 #1
It's still great to read good news! MoonRiver Aug 2018 #2
+1. GOTV is a must. dalton99a Aug 2018 #4
Watching shark movies week on SyFy before the Iliyah Aug 2018 #3
GO dems GO! workinclasszero Aug 2018 #5
Rcp has yet to update any positive polls in the last week Tiggeroshii Aug 2018 #6

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
2. It's still great to read good news!
Wed Aug 15, 2018, 12:12 PM
Aug 2018

And these polls could actually help GOTV efforts, through the bandwagon effect.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
3. Watching shark movies week on SyFy before the
Wed Aug 15, 2018, 12:26 PM
Aug 2018

Last - Sharknado. Conservatives have political commercials targeting "Liberals" here in California. Liberal . . . name of person running . . . raising taxes, especially gas taxes, blab blab blab, Liberal this Liberal that like Liberal is a code word for really bad.

This will be the RWers line of attack.

 

Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)
6. Rcp has yet to update any positive polls in the last week
Wed Aug 15, 2018, 01:15 PM
Aug 2018

Ipso came out a week ago with +9 or so and these came out today and still nothing. How interesting.

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