New Politico/Morning Consult poll gives Dems 10 point advantage on generic ballot

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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/21/polls-show-democrats-with-sizeable-advantage-for-2018-midterms-310146

The midterm election is more than 10 months away, but polls this month — including a new POLITICO/Morning Consult survey — show Democrats opening up a double-digit lead on the generic ballot, a test of whether voters nationwide prefer to be represented in Congress by a Democrat or a Republican. Democrats’ advantage in the new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll stands at 10 percentage points, 44 percent to 34 percent — the party’s largest lead of the year.

Democrats and liberals are as motivated as Republicans and conservatives to vote in next year’s elections, the POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows, in a reversal from recent midterms, when conservatives were more energized. That trend has been evident during the 2017 off-year and special elections, when turnout spiked in Democratic areas, relative to other non-presidential races.

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Within the past week, Trump has reached all-time lows in his approval rating from polling aggregators. The new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows Trump’s approval rating slightly higher than the mid-to-high-30s national polling average: 41 percent, though that is only 2 points better than his lowest approval rating this year.

But Democrats’ 10-point lead on the generic ballot is their largest for the year. The party has a 15-point lead among female voters, the poll shows, and a 3-point edge among male voters. White voters are split — 39 percent for Democrats and 38 percent for Republicans — but Democrats have a 59-point lead among African-American voters and a 27-point lead among Hispanics.

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1. Yesterday, Dem pollster Cornell Belcher was

on MSNBC to talk about the poll results. He said the number to watch was "+4" which is the lead Dems have on the question of "who's better on taxes". He said R's should be very worried essentially because taxes are the one area where Rs have consistently been viewed as "better". If Rs are losing on what is their signature issue, it's not good new for them.