{"id":10591,"date":"2014-04-22T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10591"},"modified":"2014-04-21T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T00:32:18","slug":"democrats-lead-republicans-by-6-points-in-generic-2014-mid-term-election-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10591","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Lead Republicans by 6 Points in Generic 2014 Mid-Term Election Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WinnersLosers_LeftRight.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/house-races\/203661-poll-dems-hold-6-point-lead-on-generic-ballot-test\">Via The Hill&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Democrats lead Republicans by 6 percentage points on a generic ballot test going into the midterm elections in November, according to a new poll. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/wp-content\/misc\/usapolls\/us140407\/Obama\/Complete%20April%202014%20USA%20McClatchy_Marist%20Poll%20Release%20and%20Tables.pdf\">Marist-McClatchy poll<\/a> released Tuesday found 48 percent of registered voters would choose a Democrat if the congressional elections were held today. Another 42 percent said they would support a Republican candidate. Six percent said they&#8217;re undecided. <\/p>\n<p>The last time the polling firm tested the question, in February, Democrats held only a 2-point lead. Other recent polling has shown a narrow edge for Democrats. The Real Clear Politics average has Democrats topping Republicans by about 2 percent as well.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maybe Democrats will stop <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10549\"><i>acting<\/i><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10588\">like losers<\/a> now too. Hmmm. Doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Hill&#8230; Democrats lead Republicans by 6 percentage points on a generic ballot test going into the midterm elections in November, according to a new poll. A Marist-McClatchy poll released Tuesday found 48 percent of registered voters would choose a Democrat if the congressional elections were held today. Another 42 percent said they would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,596,300,198,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-election-2014","category-republicans","category-us-house","category-us-senate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}