{"id":2828,"date":"2010-09-09T02:08:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T09:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2010-09-09T02:08:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T09:08:53","slug":"huge-shift-in-generic-ballot-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/huge-shift-in-generic-ballot-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Shift in Generic Ballot Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when it looked bleakest, the latest Gallup generic ballot poll shifted back to a dead heat between Democratic and Republican candidates.  While not as positive as it sounds, at least it offers hope to save our nation from disaster.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\"9poll\"<\/a> Say goodbye to the 10-point lead Republicans enjoyed in last week’s Gallup poll of generic congressional preferences. <\/p>\n

Gallup’s weekly tracking poll of the generic ballot, a key predictor of voters’ actions in elections, showed Democrats and Republicans tied at 46 percent<\/a> — down from the 10-point lead the GOP held just a week ago<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The shift, the polling group noted, marked the first time in five weeks where Republicans didn’t hold some sort of advantage over Democrats. Last week’s 51-41 percent lead was heralded as "unprecedented" for Republicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The survey, which tracks voters’ preference in a matchup of a generic Democratic and Republican candidates for Congress, still shows a hearty enthusiasm gap for the GOP. The party still leads Democrats by 25 percent in voter enthusiasm<\/strong>, and the GOP leads independents by 22 percent in the same measure\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Hill<\/a>><\/p>\n

The main area where we lag behind in enthusiasm is disgruntled progressives.  So to my disgruntled progressive friends, I say this.  I understand and share your frustration.  We did not get everything we wanted.  But think what we would have lost had McConJob, Mooseolini, and the Republican Regime remained in power.  I believe Obama genuinely cares about the needs of the poor and middle classes, while the Republicans care for millionaires only.  Please don\u2019t give up now.  Do not put yourselves in the position of looking back on this election and knowing you could have helped prevent the catastrophe of Republican rule.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when it looked bleakest, the latest Gallup generic ballot poll shifted back to a dead heat between Democratic and Republican candidates.  While not as positive as it sounds, at least it offers hope to save our nation from disaster. Say goodbye to the 10-point lead Republicans enjoyed in last week’s Gallup poll of generic […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}