AP poll: public swings to Democrats keeping control of Congress Email Print

The poll published today shows the public prefers now for the Dems to hold Congress, 45% to 40% — and a roundabout flip from a month earlier, when the preference for Democrats was turned around, 41% then for Democrats having majority control to 44% for the GOP.

You can read the details here. There's an anti-incumbent leaning that still makes the result hard to interpret.

Yesterday, an NBC-WSJ poll had numbers that also showed the GOP behind the Democrats in favorable-unfavorable ratings.

Though msnbc buried the lede, that poll found substantially worse, lower favorable ratings, by 7 points, for the GOP than for Dems, but both parties are still apparently "upside down."

The fav / unfav ratio for gop was 30% favorable to 42% unfavorable, compared to the Democrats 37% / 42% fav / unfav.

Clearly, the anti-incumbent swell is more toxic for Republicans, even if the press hasn't figured it out.

Maybe GOP's goal of trying to block anything good from getting done will handicap them. I expect so.

The numbers are in the middle of the second paragraph of course. The story notes wryly that GM has better favorables now than either party.


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