WSJ: Republican Congressional Candidates Seemingly Unaffected by Trump Unease

[Oceander]

Republican Congressional Candidates Seemingly Unaffected by Trump Unease

New Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll suggests voters may split ballots between parties

By Aaron Zitner
Updated Oct. 16, 2016 9:04 a.m. ET

Voter unease with Donald Trump doesn't appear to be producing the kind of backlash against his party’s congressional candidates that would strip Republicans of a majority in the House, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.

When asked which party they would want to control Congress after next month’s elections, 46% of the registered voters in the survey favored a Democratic-led Congress and 44% backed a GOP-led Congress.

By historical standards, that 2-point advantage for Democrats doesn't signal the kind of wave that would bring the party a big gain of House seats. The last two times that Democrats picked up a large number of House seats, in 2006 and 2008, they led by 10 points or more on the ”congressional control” question.

Coming amid weak support for Mr. Trump, the numbers suggest that many voters are ready to back one party for president and another in down-ballot races, a reversal of recent trends. Such ”ticket-splitting” has declined in recent years as the nation’s voters have become more sharply partisan.

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Mr. Trump widened over the past month in Journal/NBC News polling, while her party’s advantage on who should control Congress narrowed.

Mrs. Clinton led Mr. Trump by 11 percentage points among likely voters, 48% to 37%, in the survey conducted last week, compared with a 6-point advantage in September. Both margins are larger than the Democrats’ lead on which party should control Congress, which stood at 4 points in August, 3 points in September and 2 points in the new survey.

One reason for the disparity may be that voters want Republicans to retain some power in Washington in the case that Mrs. Clinton is elected.

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[Oceander]

Thank God for small favors

[LadyLiberty]

Let's hope and pray.  Trump certainly isn't the "movement" they've been trying to make him out to be.

[XenaLee]

Thank God for small favors

But ONLY IF she's attractive, physically, enough.  Or blonde enough.  In Trump's royal little golden world...

it's good to be da king. 

[Norm Lenhart]

Personally I think that based on their record over the last several years, it doesn't matter if we lose the house and senate or not. We didn't get to where we are because they actually opposed the Democrats.

With that said however, it would be great to see them win if only to prove that those who stood up (for a change) against Trump's BS paid no price whatsoever and in fact, benefited from it.

[Norm Lenhart]

But ONLY IF she's attractive, physically, enough.  Or blonde enough.  In Trump's royal little golden world...

it's good to be da king.

I never got the "Blonde" thing. I always preferred Redheads/Brunettes.

[rodamala]

Republicans ought to be safe in Congress this cycle, as there is a need to counteract either liberal candidate for the Executive.

It's up to The House to shut down Santa Claus candidates of any liberal flavor, which is what this whole rotten election basically is, two rotten liberal c*nt punchers.

Oh, BTW you "But the Supreme Court justices!" Trump Davidian alarmist a-holes... it's up to the Senate to allow Supreme Court nominations to be seated.

Go on The Google machine and search the words "and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate".