CNN released a poll on Wednesday with results that shocked its own pundits: the much vaunted “Blue Wave” hoped for by Democrats in the coming midterm elections has virtually disappeared.
The Democratic generic Congressional Ballot advantage has dwindled to three points, 47 percent to 44 percent among registered voters, two points below the five point generic advantage Democrats need to hold onto the 196 seats they currently hold. That five point bar is due to the significant gerrymandering advantage Republicans obtained when Republican majority state legislatures in states that had Democratic majority legislatures in 2000 redrew Congressional district lines after the 2010 census.
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After its repeated 2016 90% for Hillary polls up until election day, no one should trust CNN's polls as being anything but what they are: entertainment. Bad entertainment, but entertainment nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteThis one is politically motivated, too, as it looks to give false hope to Conservatives in an effort to reduce their numbers in the voting booths in 2018.