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I stand by my prediction of Republicans picking up 11 seats in the Senate. The most recent generic survey results should make Democrats queasy. The path of generic number charts are eerily like they were in 2010 and 2014 which is very bad news for the Democrats. The current average of the four newest generic surveys shows a sharp drop in the Democrats’ lead. While the Democrats’ led by 6 points two weeks ago, it has dropped to just 2.25% now. This basically means Democrats are losing since they have to have a lead of more than 6 points in...

After the results of the special election in Ohio were announced and the air was taken out of both sides, the Democrat controlled media decided to celebrate anyway. Truth be told the lackluster Republican, who got more votes on election day, might still lose because there are more than enough outstanding ballots to overcome his slim lead. Nevertheless, since the Democrat controlled media has little else in the way of honest and verifiable good news to talk about for their masters, they turned to wild talk, no make that insanely disparate talk, about Ohio being a sign that Democrats will...

Rasmussen’s Generic ballot report holds some encouraging subsurface dangers for Obama’s Democrats. Built on a simple question: “In the next Congressional election would you vote for a Democrat or a Republican?”, Generic Ballot poll results can be a valuable indicator of what might happen in the next election. On Inauguration Day Obama was very popular and Congressional Democrats enjoyed a healthy Generic ballot lead. The January numbers had Democrats favored by 42% and Republicans favored by 35%; a very big lead in this type of poll. Now that advantage is gone. Since he took office Obama has seen his numbers...