Fox News poll gives Dems 9-point edge on generic ballot

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/391283-fox-news-poll-gives-dems-9-point-edge-on-generic-ballo

Fox News poll gives Dems 9-point edge on generic ballot
By Max Greenwood - 06/07/18 06:47 PM EDT


Democrats hold a nine-point lead over Republicans on the generic House ballot, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday.

According to the survey, 48 percent of voters preferred the Democratic candidate in their House district, compared to 39 percent who preferred the Republican candidate.

That nine-point lead is up from the five-point lead Democrats held in March, the last time Fox News surveyed voters on the matter.

The Fox News survey comes as welcome news for Democrats as they seek to regain control of the House in November's midterm elections.

Two other polls released this week — an NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey and a Quinnipiac University poll — also gave Democrats sizable leads on the generic House ballot.

Democrats also appear to be more interested in midterm elections than Republicans.

According to the Fox News poll, 72 percent of Democrats said they were either extremely or very interested in the contests. Sixty-three percent of Republicans said the same.

Respondents reported greater trust in Republicans to handle issues related to terrorism, border security and the economy, but Democrats were favored by respondents on issues such as climate change, health care, immigration and judicial nominations.

The Fox News poll surveyed 1,001 randomly selected registered voters nationwide from June 3-6. It has a margin of error of three percentage points.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. In reality

its at leat 20 points or more. This shitshow is intolerable. These news stories about margins can really tick you off. Just a way to control and fashion outcomes based on stories w numbers. Says who? Who checks the reports? Here we go with another election forecast type story that does'nt comport with the absolute bullshit situation the USA is in. Cannot possibly reflect the true feelings of the voters by and large. Wait till hurricane season. Lots of johnny come lately's when their house is floating in the gulf etc.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. The National Socialists won a plurality of the vote in Germany's last free election.

Never underestimate the desire for an authoritarian leader for those incapable of self governance. For a less dramatic example look at how popular Putin is in Russia and Duterte is in the Philippines.

[OliverQ]

3. A lot of that popularity could also be based on fear.

When you literally get murdered or jailed for daring to not praise Putin, you end up just going about your life approving of him for survival.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Duterte is immensely popular in the Philippines.

[OliverQ]

5. Probably the same reason. He threatens people.

Anecdotally, my co-worker is from the Phillippines. I haven't talked to her recently about Duterte, but early on she said she supported him, even though she disagreed with a lot of things he said.

Her main reason is she's from Manila, and she said it was so dangerous and scary to be out in the city due to all the drug offenders. She wanted to see the drug crimes cleaned up off the street. That's why she supported him.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Suspected drug users...

Drug users and suspected drug users are summarily killed. Duterte rules with an iron fist. It seems many Filipinos are okay with it.

[redstateblues]

7. It's scary that a large percentage of Americans would welcome

authoritarian rule.

[Blue_true]

8. Ignore the polls.

Everyone need to vote and encourage every like minded acquaintance to vote. I would love to see republicans historically crushed on November 6.