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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Mon Aug 27, 2018, 02:05 PM Aug 2018

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Harvard Harris Poll * Generic Ballot -Dems 45% Crooks 38%

https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Final_HHP_Aug2018_RegisteredVoters_Topline_Memo.pdf

* Not a big fan of the Harris Poll in its present incarnation and wonder why Harvard would attach themselves to it but I'm not one to look a gift poll in the mouth.

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Harvard Harris Poll * Generic Ballot -Dems 45% Crooks 38% (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 OP

Too close. Doodley Aug 2018 #1

We need 50%, consistently. beachbum bob Aug 2018 #2

We had an 8 point lead in 06 and that translated into a 31 House seat , 5 Senate seat, 6 gub. seat DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #3

538 up to 8.3 generic gap Awsi Dooger Aug 2018 #4

If it's 8 on election day we'll have a nice wave, not a tsunami though. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #5

8 would be fantastic Awsi Dooger Aug 2018 #6

Doodley

(9,095 posts)

1. Too close.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 02:14 PM

Aug 2018

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

2. We need 50%, consistently.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 02:14 PM

Aug 2018

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

3. We had an 8 point lead in 06 and that translated into a 31 House seat , 5 Senate seat, 6 gub. seat

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 02:19 PM

Aug 2018

pick up.

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)

4. 538 up to 8.3 generic gap

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 02:55 PM

Aug 2018

Highest since early July

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-generic-ballot-polls/?ex_cid=rrpromo

Another poll -- Morning Consult -- came in with 8 point edge, and 538 adjusted upward to +11

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

5. If it's 8 on election day we'll have a nice wave, not a tsunami though.

Reply to Awsi Dooger (Reply #4)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 02:57 PM

Aug 2018

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)

6. 8 would be fantastic

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #5)

Mon Aug 27, 2018, 03:26 PM

Aug 2018

Somewhere in the 30-38 range, if I had to guess

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