With just a week left until the 2022 midterm elections, the political environment appears to be eroding rapidly for Democrats – especially in areas where the party has long held sway.
“The scariest Halloween reality for House Democrats is the number of seats President [Joe] Biden carried comfortably in 2020 that are at genuine risk a week out,” wrote Dave Wasserman, the House editor at the Cook Report with Amy Walter, a nonpartisan campaign tipsheet.
To that end, Wasserman shifted race ratings for 10 Democratic-held seats into more jeopardy – including three apiece in the Democratic redoubts of California and New York.
On the same day Wasserman made his changes, Gallup released a report that suggests the political winds are all blowing in Republicans’ direction.
The numbers are daunting for Democrats:
* Just 40% of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing as president.
* Only 17% express satisfaction with how things are going in the US.
* 49% say the state of the economy is “poor.”
* A meager 21% approve of the job the Democratic-led Congress is doing.
As Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones and Lydia Saad note:
“Current ratings of the U.S. economy and national satisfaction are the lowest Gallup has measured at the time of a midterm election over the life of these polling trends, starting in 1994 and 1982, respectively. Congressional and presidential job approval are near their historical low marks.”
MoAR
Damn, things must really be bad for the dems if that is what CNN is claiming.
Mods, this is a couple days old but it did not come up in a search....Kill it if dupe.
“The scariest Halloween reality for House Democrats is the number of seats President [Joe] Biden carried comfortably in 2020 that are at genuine risk a week out,” wrote Dave Wasserman, the House editor at the Cook Report with Amy Walter, a nonpartisan campaign tipsheet.
To that end, Wasserman shifted race ratings for 10 Democratic-held seats into more jeopardy – including three apiece in the Democratic redoubts of California and New York.
On the same day Wasserman made his changes, Gallup released a report that suggests the political winds are all blowing in Republicans’ direction.
The numbers are daunting for Democrats:
* Just 40% of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing as president.
* Only 17% express satisfaction with how things are going in the US.
* 49% say the state of the economy is “poor.”
* A meager 21% approve of the job the Democratic-led Congress is doing.
As Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones and Lydia Saad note:
“Current ratings of the U.S. economy and national satisfaction are the lowest Gallup has measured at the time of a midterm election over the life of these polling trends, starting in 1994 and 1982, respectively. Congressional and presidential job approval are near their historical low marks.”
MoAR
Damn, things must really be bad for the dems if that is what CNN is claiming.
Mods, this is a couple days old but it did not come up in a search....Kill it if dupe.
