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Title: Consider the Source: Polls Predicting a ‘Blue Wave’ Are Unreliable
Post by: endicom on October 15, 2018, 02:10:02 pm

American Greatness
Nicholas L. Waddy
Oct. 15, 2018

Understandably, Republicans are distraught when they hear the mainstream media endlessly repeat the mantra that the November midterms bode well for an historic “blue wave.” President Trump’s alleged incompetence and borderline-tyrannical misrule of the rightfully indignant American people will produce a suitable backlash, we are told: Democrats will surely take the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate.

Will the Republican Party even survive this shellacking? The verdict is out.

This narrative is supported by polling conducted on behalf of major news organizations. CNN’s latest poll, conducted October 4-7, is a good case in point. It claims that, in the “generic ballot” question that asks whether likely voters are inclined to support the Democratic or Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in their local district, Democrats hold a massive 13-point edge, 54-41 percent.

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Title: Re: Consider the Source: Polls Predicting a ‘Blue Wave’ Are Unreliable
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on October 15, 2018, 02:19:10 pm

seriously?  What is the source of the article?