CNN poll: Democrats are fired up and maintain a strong 2018 lead

[mystery-ak]

CNN poll: Democrats are fired up and maintain a strong 2018 lead

By Grace Sparks, CNN

Updated 2:42 PM ET, Tue October 9, 2018

Washington (CNN)Four weeks out from Election Day, Democrats remain well ahead of Republicans in a generic ballot matchup, with 54% of likely voters saying they support the Democrat in their district and 41% backing a Republican, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

This is the widest margin of support for Democrats in a midterm cycle since 2006, when at this point, the party held a whopping 21-point lead over Republicans among likely voters. That's also when Democrats seized control of the House from Republicans, making Nancy Pelosi speaker until 2011.

This year, Democrats' enthusiasm about their congressional vote has increased and 62% now say they're extremely or very enthusiastic to vote, up seven points since September among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. Among Republicans and Republican leaning independents, enthusiasm has remained relatively steady, going from 50% in September to 52% in the most recent poll.

Democratic enthusiasm this year is more intense than it has been in previous midterm cycles, which typically engage voters less than presidential years. The 40% who call themselves "extremely enthusiastic" is the highest share to say so in a midterm election cycle since CNN first asked the question in 2009.

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/politics/cnn-poll-midterms/index.html

[Sanguine]

Uh huh.   

[Wingnut]

CNN.  Right. 

Yawn

[andy58-in-nh]

Small sample of registered voters (729) and ... "31% described themselves as Democrats, 25% described themselves as Republicans, and 44% described themselves as independents".

[austingirl]

Hope the lazy a$$ leftists will believe this and not bestir themselves to vote on November 8th.  ( I know it's the 6th)

[the_doc]

@andy58-in-nh
@Sanguine

Small sample of registered voters (729) and ... "31% described themselves as Democrats, 25% described themselves as Republicans, and 44% described themselves as independents".

Thanks for the data, andy!

31 divided by [31+25] X 100% = ~55%.

25 divided by [31+25] X 100% = ~43%.

Given that the poll's results for the Dems was 54%--essentially the same number we get from the split of major party affiliations (Dem versus GOP), we can probably adjust both the Dem and GOP figures downward by the ratio of 54/55.  And 54/55 X 43% = ~42% which is very close to the 41% GOP result in the poll.  (The effect of the Indies seems to have been insignificant.)   

At the bottom line, this push-polling survey is nonsense.  It doesn't prove that the Dems are enthusiastic.  It just proves that they are almost invincibly ignorant (which might be portentous only of the enthusiasm of fools).  About half of the Indies aren't too sophisticated, either, since although they were by far the largest group sampled, they seem to have mirrored the Dem-versus-GOP split.

In any case, the polls shouldn't even be close at this point.  Time for Trump to open up lots of sealed indictments, if you ask me.  It's time to wake up the ignorami and fools as to what has really been going on for many years in the Democratic Socialist Swamp.

[musiclady]

Hope the lazy a$$ leftists will believe this and not bestir themselves to vote on November 8th.  ( I know it's the 6th)

 

[cato potatoe]

I usually get annoyed at the anti-pollsters, but I no longer trust anything CNN reports.  They are just garbage and proud of it.

[Wingnut]

I usually get annoyed at the anti-pollsters, but I no longer trust anything CNN reports.  They are just garbage and proud of it.

Ain't it the truth. 

[libertybele]

CNN.  Right. 

Yawn

That was my first thought.  A CNN poll.  Do you really think they would report that the DEMS were behind in their polls? 

[Wingnut]

That was my first thought.  A CNN poll.  Do you really think they would report that the DEMS were behind in their polls? 

Exactly.