[Steely Tom]

The poll finds that registered voters prefer Democratic candidates for the House over Republican candidates by 50 percent to 43 percent. That marks a slight decline from last month, when Democrats led on the generic congressional ballot by 11 points, and a bigger drop from August, when they enjoyed a 14-point advantage.

Thing is, the congressional districts that favor Democrats tend to greatly favor democrats, due to aggressive gerrymandering by Democrat legislatures. A strongly liberal district that turns out an extra 10,000 Democrats to vote their Trump-hate still elects exactly one Congressman, just as it did when Obama was President.

[Az Joe]

Exactly. Trump wants no wasted votes. I believe he’d prefer to win more districts by a solitary vote if he could.

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

Yes, there are a ton of mainly urban districts that vote 70-90% Democrap, but no matter how “fired up” that base is the result is still one Representative per district.

[gogeo]

Exactly so.