Sentences with phrase «midterm election polls»

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A Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll released on Sunday found that 50 % of people said they want Democrats to lead Congress after the 2018 midterm elections, compared to 39 % who said they hoped Republicans would retain congressional control.

But recent polls suggest that the incoming Alabama senator - elect's victory may be a part of a larger trend that could spell trouble for Republicans in next year's midterm elections.

Yet current polls show a greater likelihood of a Democratic takeover in the House of Representatives following the midterm elections, while they suggest that Republicans likely will maintain a hold on a Senate majority.1

The upturn follows an aggressive advertising campaign by the party and coincides with an eroding Democratic lead in polls gauging midterm election prospects.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

The campaign to take on Cuomo this year is considered in uphill one, given Democratic advantages at the polls in a midterm election and the governor's $ 30 million campaign war chest.

Today's Marist poll finds voter sentiment hasn't changed much when it comes to the upcoming midterm elections, with voters closely divided on whether they're willing to support incumbents or vote for new faces.

The Associated Press unveiled a new project to supplant traditional exit polling — beginning with the 2018 midterm elections — by combining traditional, probability - based polling with an online, opt - in survey of voters in targeted states.

Even as generic congressional ballot polling has indicated that Republicans are making up some ground ahead of 2018 midterm election, Democrats are widening their targets and a nonpartisan analysis shows that more GOP incumbents might be at risk.

But with the midterm elections less than two months away, leaders have not yet decided whether they will schedule a vote on the legislation before voters go to the polls.

And, he tells the Marist Poll's John Sparks that's because he believes voter turnout will be low in the upcoming midterm elections.

It disrupts GOP efforts to portray party unity ahead of the midterm election and to rack up legislative wins to motivate voters to the polls to keep their majority.

Washington (CNN)- Young adults will be a deciding factor in the midterm elections, and with just two months until November, their votes are still up for grabs, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

This allows New York to redeem itself from the ignominious status of place dead last in turnout nationwide this year and in the nation with fewer voters going to the polls than in any midterm election for at least three decades.

Arkansas requires a party to poll 3 % for the office at the top of the ballot in each election, in order to stay on the ballot (i.e., 3 % for President in presidential years, and 3 % for Governor in midterm years).

AARP officials say that in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, voters 50 and older went to the polls at nearly twice the rate of younger voters, accounting for 58 percent of all votes cast in New York State.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Repudiated at the polls, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced Wednesday that he will resign his leadership post at the end of next month, clearing the way for a potentially disruptive Republican shake - up just before midterm elections with control of Congress at stake.

(CNN)- Six days before the midterm elections, a new poll indicates that it's too close to call in the fight for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

And this from the Gallup analysis: «The six - point Democratic advantage among all registered voters in the current poll suggests the 2010 election could be quite close if it were held today given low turnout in midterm elections and the usual Republican advantages in turnout.»

NEW POLLS SHOW TIGHT SENATE RACES IN NC, KY... New polls in four southern states that could determine whether the Democrats keep control of the Senate in this November's midterm elections indicate close contPOLLS SHOW TIGHT SENATE RACES IN NC, KY... New polls in four southern states that could determine whether the Democrats keep control of the Senate in this November's midterm elections indicate close contpolls in four southern states that could determine whether the Democrats keep control of the Senate in this November's midterm elections indicate close contests.

[11] Southern Democrat senators had spent days filibustering legislation to end poll taxes, just days after midterm elections had resulted in the loss of nine seats.

Ms. Tenney, a first - term Republican congresswoman from Central New York, has remained an unabashed supporter of President Trump, even as his unpopularity in his home state is expected to drive Democrats to the polls in November's midterm elections.

Voters say they prefer Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives over Republicans by the widest margin in over a decade, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll — a fresh sign of trouble for the GOP majority one year before the midterm elections.

With Democrats on defense across the board in Senate races, their hopes in 2014 could rest heavily on their ability to turn out their base — which is to say, voters who are less likely to go to the polls in midterm elections.

New Jersey Democrats are well positioned to snag U.S. House seats held by Republicans in the midterm election, according to a new poll released Monday.

Organizers say the rallies are the first step toward getting more people to the polls for the midterm elections.

With a year to go before midterm congressional elections, a new national poll suggests that Republicans are making gains.

Before last year's midterms, an overwhelming majority of education experts polled by the consulting firm Whiteboard Advisors said replacing No Child Left Behind would have to wait until well after the 2016 elections — if it ever happened at all.

According to Higher Ed Not Debt, Public Policy Polling found that, during the 2014 midterm elections, 73 % of voters supported allowing students to refinance student loans the same way other debts can be refinanced.

But starting with the 2010 midterms and continuing into the next two federal elections, he skipped going to the polls.

Kaufman called on the protesters to invite «17 other voters» to accompany them to the polls during this year's midterm elections.