Poll: Dems up 12 points ahead of midterms

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY KYLE BALLUCK - 09/23/18 09:36 AM EDT

Democrats hold a 12-point lead over Republicans just more than six weeks ahead of the midterm congressional elections, according to a new poll.

Slightly more than half of registered voters -- 52 percent — said in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday that they preferred a Democratic-controlled Congress, compared to 40 percent who want Republicans to retain their majorities in the House and Senate.

NBC News noted that the Democrats’ 12-point lead is their highest this cycle. In August, they held an 8-point lead, 50 to 42 percent. Voters who are most likely to vote favor Democrats by 8 points in the new survey, 51 to 43 percent.

Pollsters also found that Republicans’ enthusiasm has drawn nearly even with Democrats.



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[Stuart G]

1. Thank You for posting this...k and r. "12-point lead is their highest this cycle."

Eight wonderful words........."12 point lead is their highest this cycle."
...................again.................."12 point lead is their highest this cycle."

[sellitman]

2. Polls mean nothing

Stop the ES&S voting machines or we are toast again. IMHO

[Fred Sanders]

4. There is a reason pollsters are paid millions and millions and it is not because they are useless.

It is science.

Dr. Ford is a statistical scientist in psychometric and related mathematical analysis...I love science!

[sellitman]

5. It's nothing against the science

Your science is worthless when the voting outcome is doctored.

Look at the exit polls in the last election. Hillary won those Hands down in the swing States and guess what?

[The Liberal Lion]

10. Some people just aren't going to listen

to the staggering truth contained within your post. I think after the votes are counted this election, many are going to finally understand just how screwed we are. I'm hoping I'm wrong, but I fear I'm right. I'm going to vote, that's for sure. I believe it to be my last act of defiance. But, honestly, I no longer have faith in this system, and I do not believe my vote means anything. I'm prepared, as Malcolm X put it, for the alternative to the ballot.

[redstateblues]

19. Staggering truth? More like staggering negativity in the face of potential good news

You need to spend some canvassing or doing something positive to help. There is a very good chance we take back at least the House.

[sellitman]

23. I'm realistic.

I am also on my my Towns Democratic Town Council so I guess I agree with you.

[elleng]

16. Right, that and so many other 'fixes' repugs have foisted on us for years.

I have little confidence there will be a free and fair vote, now or any time in the foreseeable future.

[qwlauren35]

20. I could not agree more.

F*ck the polls. I want us to be down in the polls by about 2 percent, and determined to pull a Hail Mary pass.

I want us motivated and intent on winning, and it takes neck-in-neck polls to do that, so I want neck-and-neck polls.

[Mc Mike]

3. Good, should be +112%, though.

The repugs should be losing points from previous elections, with their shit job performances and massive scandals.

[DownriverDem]

6. There's More of Us

Now let's get out there and vote in such huge numbers that the repubs will clearly see how they are viewed & not supported.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Rare event in the sense that

Dems often lead in polls on Labor Day, and usually revert to the mean afterward. So far we're not following that pattern. Fingers crossed, knock wood. If this holds we're going to flush Congress.

[elleng]

17. Fingers crossed with yours.

[C Moon]

8. That's 13 more points of cheating the GOP has to do.

[Gymbo]

9. In A Gerrymandered Congress

12 points doesn't mean so much. It is important, but the call should be fierce to get out the vote. Anyone who sits on their behind for the next six weeks should be ashamed. Get on the move people, even one new voter is important.

[AKing]

11. Let's not get overconfident. Keep registering people to vote and ask them to register others.

[Scurrilous]

12. K&R

[elocs]

13. Wow! A 12 percentage point lead--that's huge!

Well I guess I don't have to bother to go and vote then, right? I mean since the Blue Wave is in the bag.

[qwlauren35]

21. I see that coming.

Sometimes it seems like Democratic voters will find all kinds of reasons not to go to the polls, while Republican voters are very steadfast.

This needs to change. Maybe this is the year.

[smooth64]

14. Give me that poll with 1 day before the Tuesday election

40 some days before an election is a lifetime in politics. We can't get complacent with polling we have to vote like we are behind

[Sparky 1]

15. Good! But remembering that R's cheat, we should work to double that.

[Snellius]

18. Repubs have no idea of the beast they released.

I hear weeping and screams and a crushing sound in the near distance.

[Honeycombe8]

22. It should be more.

With all that has happened, and not happened, with the Republicans in Congress, it's a shame we're only 12 pts preferred.