Three recent polls — conducted by CNN/SSRS, Quinnipiac University and Fox News —have shown Democrats losing their double-digit edge in generic congressional polling over the GOP. In two of the polls, Democrats experienced a double-digit drop in their lead from earlier polling.
Why it matters: There has been a lot of buzz about a blue wave that allows Democrats to retake the House in 2018, but these polls should give the left some pause. That’s because Democrats will need to over-perform against a generic ballot to score big gains in the House since — as Nate Cohn at the NYT notes in a worthy read — gerrymandered congressional districts give the GOP a clear electoral edge heading into the fall.
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I hate polls. Don’t trust them. Looks to me like all those polls still show us getting our asses kicked. Very troubling.
so the gop keeps the house? big whoop.
one year in.
swamp still not drained.
wall still not built.
gop owns it all. we get nothing. crickets.
same old cuck-boomer democracy bullshit. we’ll just vote our way out!
just like with reagan.
just like with bush.
tired of whinning, yet? booya!
Brad – you have to remember that the polls almost always over sample democrats by 8 to 10 points and sometimes even more. That’s one reason all the polls showed Trump losing by 5 points or more when he was really up by 5 or so (discounting the raw vote totals in CA and NY).
If the republicans are only 5 points down in the polls at this stage, it likely reflects that in reality, they are ahead by a couple of points or at least “even” within the margin of error. I think that’s what’s got the dem’s knickers in a twist – they know that they cheat on the polls to keep up the morale of the base (and to make it look closer than it is so they can hide their vote fraud better at election time).
what bubba said
@ ends. – Troll much??
I think this going to end like the Trump election.
BUT DON’T GET TOO COMPLACENT!
Wellll… you know libtards. When the polls are down, they’ll just smoke ’em instead… 😳
They also have as their spokestot David Hogg, that lovable teen heartthrob from CNN.
Baaaaarrrrfffff….
They also have as their spokestot David Hogg, that lovable teen heartthrob from CNN.
He looks like an alien to me. Outer-space type.
@TRUE LIBERTY March 31, 2018 at 7:31 am
> I think this going to end like the Trump election.
(sigh) yeah…
That’s nice.
Don’t forget; complacency kills.
Work as if you’re behind in the polls.