What to Make of All These New and Often Conflicting Generic Ballot Polls?

If you are confused about what to make of the latest slew of polling data about control of Congress in 2018, you are not alone. On the so-called generic ballot question which asks voters if they’d support a Democrat or Republican for Congress in 2018, Democrats have either lost ground or retained their double-digit lead. As my colleague Charlie Cook wrote, there’s a big difference between Democrats winning the national House vote by 5 points (as CNN showed) or 12 points (as the ABC/Washington Post found). CONT.

Amy Walter, Cook Political Report

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