Gallup Poll: As Bleak As It’s Ever Been for Dems
August 30th 2010 · 0 Comments
Tidal wave? 10-point poll edge for GOP
JONATHAN ALLEN & RICHARD E. COHEN | POLITICO
8/30/10
Democrats thought things couldn’t get much worse on the electoral front — and then they went home to campaign.
A new Gallup poll released Monday shows Republicans with a record 10-point edge over Democrats on the “generic ballot” test — the question of whether voters prefer a Democratic or Republican congressional candidate. It’s the largest GOP polling edge at this stage in the 68 years of the generic ballot poll.
While party optimists say Democrats may cling to a small majority after the November election, an increasing number of Democratic strategists now say privately that they fear the House is already lost.
The Gallup poll, coming at the end of a brutal August for Democrats and President Barack Obama, reinforces the rapidly forming prevailing view that the horizon is as bleak for Democrats as it ever has been.
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