Midterm Predictions Includes Optimistic Dems & A Scary Silver Lining

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

“In 2014, the high-stakes battle for control of the U.S. Senate, rather than individual House races, has gotten most of the attention from pollsters and the news media. However, the most recent data from national and district-level surveys suggests that while they’re polling significantly behind the level of the 2010 GOP wave, Republicans are poised to expand their U.S. House majority on Tuesday, gaining at least a half dozen seats and perhaps as many as 10 to 15.

Compared to the U.S. Senate races, publicly released polling at the level of individual U.S. House seats is rare. Heading into the final weekend of campaign 2014, for example, HuffPost Pollster had found less than a dozen House contests for which 5 or more polls have been released publicly.

On Friday, CBS News, in partnership with The New York Times and the online pollsters YouGov, asked voters in all 435 U.S. House Districts about which candidate they are planning to support for U.S. House, with larger samples for the most competitive districts.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Mark Blumenthal, Ariel Edwards-Levy & Natalie Jackson / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/03/house-polls-2014_n_6084524.html

Leave a Comment