Posted on 09/10/2014 8:08:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Republicans may be poised for strong midterm gains, according to a new poll conducted for NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
Republicans hold a two-point lead nationwide on which party registered voters want to see in control of Congress, and that lead expands to 10 points in the Senate battleground states at 50 percent to 40 percent in the poll, conducted by Democratic polling firm Hart Research and Republican pollster Public Opinion Strategies.
"With 56 days until Election Day, our poll provides greater insight into what is likely to happen, and the news is not good for the Democrats," Democratic pollster Fred Yang writes in an accompanying memo.
President Obama is a huge drag on the party — his approval rating is down to 40 percent with 54 percent disapproving, tied for the lowest number the poll has found in his presidency.
There's also been a major shift on immigration in the last few months, according to the poll, which helps explain why Republicans have been attacking Senate Democrats for supporting "amnesty" in a number of Senate races.
Public approval for giving illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship has narrowed to 53 percent to 45 percent, down from 64 percent to 35 percent support in April.
The live-caller poll of 1,000 registered voters, including 35 percent who only have a cell phone, was conducted from Sept. 3-7 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.
A veritable soon ami
I’m hoping for a wave on down-ballot races. In 2010, the republicans took some 700 legislative seats, 19 legislative chambers and 10 governorships. I’d like to see this expanded upon and the republican governors like Walker, Lepage, etc, holding their seats. And a wave will help with that.
And these more conservative legislators will, in time, replace the aging Gerald Ford admirers in the US House and Senate!
But the GOPe could louse up what should be a “Republican year.” Roberts in Kansas and McCommie in Kentucky are struggling, and Cochran in Mississippi could be in trouble if the Tea Party goes fishing on Election Day.
Take all this polling with a big grain of salt.
Plenty of time left for GOP to screw this up.
Unemploying the current crop will be insufficient, as it has been in the past.
Still plenty of time for Chamber of Commerce, RNC, and GOPe to screw things up. And they will.
No one is predicting it. We still will need 67 for sure votes. Otherwise his majesty will just roll on with his fundamental change of America. W/O the actual threat of removal from office there is nothing to stop him.
I've learned not to count on low-information voters.
Our side needs for focus on turn-out that was missing 2 & 4 years ago.
So, Mitt Romney beats John McCain, but he didn't beat Barack Obama.
Thankfully, we don't have a "Moderate" Republican running for President to suppress the mid-term votes.
I don’t see Obama being impeached but I would sure like to see him criminally charged once out of office. There’s probably a better chance than in the political arena.
Even the revolting RINO in the Connecticut governor’s race is ahead of the Communist incumbent by 6 points in the latest poll. Will wonders never cease?
Let’s NOT get over confident. We aren’t up against a guy with no strategy. We are up against the Democrat Party machine which is strategy all the time 24/7/365.
Last election we lost the Presidency due running Romney, and lost millions of voters who didn’t want to vote for a Mormon, or a guy depicted as out of touch with America, and add to that a tremendous upsurge of Hispanics voting for the Democrats, because of the strategy they stopped deportation of illegal kids.
THIS TIME being mid term which traditionally many don’t bother voting the strategist geniuses of the DNC have tossed the Hispanics under the bus (delaying amnesty), and are banking on stirring up enough stuff over Michael Brown to bring out their black base in numbers sufficient to counter the hoped for Republican tsunami.
Let’s NOT think we have this one in the bag.
Of course we need a senate majority, butttt, conservatives are no longer wetting themselves with glee at what they actually will gain.
Uncertain are the goals of this victorious Republican senate, eager for Amnesty themselves, who are openly impressed with many articles of Obamacare in which some of these benefits smack of outright socialism, attractive because these articles simply buy votes.
Brace yourselves. The Chamber of Commerce and Wall Street are all singing from the same page, “We are all globalists now”. The RINO establishment wants in.
He will grant himself a pardon for life from everything.
The great expectation is whether the GOPe can govern better than the RAT party.
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