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Reuters 2018 MIDTERM ELECTIONS - Generic Ballot: GOP up by 6

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Reuters Polling

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Huh. Between the drop in Black Men supporting Democrats, the recent poll that showed most Red State Democrat Senators losing by double digits to "Someone else" and now this Reuters Generic Poll, that Blue Wave is starting to look like an undertow.

I wonder what the Dems can do to stop this collapse? Are they going to Socialist harder?
 
It ain't November yet.
 
jmotivator said:
Reuters Polling

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Huh. Between the drop in Black Men supporting Democrats, the recent poll that showed most Red State Democrat Senators losing by double digits to "Someone else" and now this Reuters Generic Poll, that Blue Wave is starting to look like an undertow.

I wonder what the Dems can do to stop this collapse? Are they going to Socialist harder?
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The D's are living up to their well earned reputation for blundering.
 
jmotivator said:
Reuters Polling

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Huh. Between the drop in Black Men supporting Democrats, the recent poll that showed most Red State Democrat Senators losing by double digits to "Someone else" and now this Reuters Generic Poll, that Blue Wave is starting to look like an undertow.

I wonder what the Dems can do to stop this collapse? Are they going to Socialist harder?
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While it is certainly heartening news, I would not yet begin warming up to run our victory lap before we've crossed the finishing line. Polls have gotten projected election results wrong before, and you never know how motivated the base will be to walk to the polling booth come November. I do not want to be cheering and jeering and then be stuck eating crow like the Democrats did in 2016.
 
Moon said:
It ain't November yet.
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No, it isn't, but nothing is going the Democrats way at the moment. The economy is good, people are tired of the Russia scandal, and they are scraping to find new things to be outraged about.

What will the Dems run on in 2018? I hear they are trying to adopt the "drain the swamp" plank... but they'd need to start THAT in their own primaries. It worked for Trump because he wasn't a politician... but the Democrats are just running the same old pols and claiming that THIS time will be different.
 
Felis Leo said:
While it is certainly heartening news, I would not yet begin warming up to run our victory lap before we've crossed the finishing line. Polls have gotten projected election results wrong before, and you never know how motivated the base will be to walk to the polling booth come November. I do not want to be cheering and jeering and then be stuck eating crow like the Democrats did in 2016.
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I'm not, but in the previous midterm waves the support for the minority party wasn't waning this soon.

There is a lot of time between now and November, but the only thing on the docket that the Democrats can put hope in is the Mueller probe and that is sucking wind.
 
jmotivator said:
No, it isn't, but nothing is going the Democrats way at the moment. The economy is good, people are tired of the Russia scandal, and they are scraping to find new things to be outraged about.

What will the Dems run on in 2018? I hear they are trying to adopt the "drain the swamp" plank... but they'd need to start THAT in their own primaries. It worked for Trump because he wasn't a politician... but the Democrats are just running the same old pols and claiming that THIS time will be different.
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That 15% is an awfully big undecided number. I wouldn't be cheering so soon.

Just sayin'.
 
Lol. The Dems just started articulating their 2018 midterm platform yesterday.

The first articulated plank is "drain the swamp" (anti-corruption), then they'll move onto healthcare reform, the tax cuts, jobs, wages, inequality, voting rights, gerrymandering reform, fixing the GOP dismantled financial and environmental regulations, lowering prices on prescription drugs, restoring needed tax credits, uplifting working people, etc.
 
leekohler2 said:
That 15% is an awfully big undecided number. I wouldn't be cheering so soon.

Just sayin'.
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There is usually a large undecided this far out, but usually in the midterm the decided people are supporting the minority party.

I would guess that this is partly due to another poll I saw yesterday where the public is gaining in enthusiasm for the economy and the majority credited Trump. People vote with their wallet, and the Dems are promising more taxes.
 
I never have put much stock in the national generic ballot for Congress, because:

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jmotivator said:
I'm not, but in the previous midterm waves the support for the minority party wasn't waning this soon.

There is a lot of time between now and November, but the only thing on the docket that the Democrats can put hope in is the Mueller probe and that is sucking wind.
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Actually, at this point in 2010 Democrats were leading a few polls, and we all know how that ended. In 2012 it looked like a close race between Obama-Romney, yet the final polls were nothing like that.

Special elections have been showing a consistent trend towards massive Democratic enthusiasm - from purple to deep red.

Five months is a long time, too.
 
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