You know we’re about to witness a huge Republican wave in the midterms when Democrat-friendly CNN publishes a poll showing the GOP with a seven-point lead in the generic ballot.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday, the GOP leads the Democrats by 7 points on the “generic ballot” question, 52 percent to 45 percent. That 7-point advantage is up from a 3-point margin last month.
This CNN poll, mind you, is a survey of the general public. When Gallup released a poll of ACTUAL VOTERS last week, it revealed a double-digit Republican lead:
Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP’s largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup’s history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress.
And it gets even worse for the Democrats if you look at only likely voters. Rasmussen just released a survey of likely voters showing a whopping twelve-point lead for the Republicans:
This matches the largest advantage ever measured for the Republicans. Three weeks ago, the GOP also held a 12-point lead.
By the way, for all you obots who will immediately begin trashing Rasmussen as a “Republican” pollster, I offer the following survey of likely voters from the Washington Post:
[A]mong those most likely to vote this fall, the Republican advantage swells to 53 percent to the Democrats’ 40 percent.
To put this into perspective, the generic ballot surveys always understate Republican support. In 1994, for example, most surveys showed the Dems and the GOP running neck and neck.
And we all know what happened then—-the Democrats got the bum’s rush. So, if all the generic ballot surveys (including CNN’s Dem-friendly poll) show a significant GOP lead, the Dems are toast.
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