PEW Research: 2014 Midterms and Republian Optimism...

by; Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Purveyor of Truth


With just over two months left until the 2014 midterm elections republicans remain optimistic while democrats are decidedly more pessimistic. Given the present national landscape and world turmoil it is not surprising nor unexpected.


From the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:

With just over two months before the midterm elections, Republican voters are widening the “expectations gap” with the Democrats. About six-in-ten (61%) Republican and GOP-leaning registered voters think their party will do better than in recent elections — roughly double the share of Democrats (32%) who feel similarly about their party’s chances.

This gap has not reached the same levels of the GOP’s margin before their large 2010 gains or the Democrats’ expectations in their 2006 sweep of both houses of Congress. Last December, the expectations gap was narrower; 55% of Republicans and Republican-leaning registered voters said the party would do better than recent elections, compared with 43% of Democrats.

A plurality of Democrats (48%) believe their party will do about the same as past elections while 14% think the outcome will be worse. Among Republicans, about one-third (32%) think the GOP will perform about the same and just 3% say the party will do worse than in recent elections

A new national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA TODAY, conducted Aug. 20-24 among 1,501 adults (including 1,171 registered voters), finds that about half of voters (49%) have given “quite a lot” of thought to the upcoming elections. The amount of thought given to the elections at this point of the campaigns is in line with the attention given to past midterm elections.

The public’s congressional vote preference remains fairly even. Among registered voters, 47% would vote for the Democratic candidate today or lean Democratic and 42% would vote or lean Republican (11% volunteer “other” or don’t know). In surveys going back to last October, neither party has opened up a large lead in the generic ballot.

However, those who plan to vote Republican this fall have given more thought than Democratic voters to the midterm elections. Nearly six-in-ten (58%) Republican voters have given “quite a lot” of thought to the elections, compared with 44% of Democratic voters.

At about this point in the 2010 midterms, overall voter preferences also were closely divided. About as many Republicans voters said they had given quite a lot of thought to the election as say that today (58% now, 59% then). But Democratic voters are now more likely to say they have given a lot of thought to the midterm than did so in early August 2010 (44% now, 34% then).

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Via: Memeorandum

Comments

  1. 1. All politics is local
    2. There is a huge amount of $$$
    3. Incumbents win, no matter how bad they are

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  2. Maybe another 2010 shaping up. Whoopee!

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    1. Eric Cantor getting wiped out the primaries; a harbinger?

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    2. Maybe, or maybe more Gohmert amd Cruz types? Who knows, and frankly who cares?

      Given the hyper partisan political atmosphere our republic is dying anyway, It's the elite, wealthy, power hungry that shall inherit the republic.

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  3. There are always third-party candidates and I suspect that that lever will get quite a workout this fall - or at least I hope so.

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  4. There's a Todd :"Legitimate Rape" Akin-style candidate just lurking out there as we speak.

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  5. It will be so refreshing not to listen to creepy Harry Reid anymore......the only downside being Mitch.

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