The battle for Senate control finds Democrats trying to mount upset challenges in a string of typically Republican states, and this round of Battleground Tracker polls shows them having at best mixed results so far. …
By more than two to one, registered voters say national issues outweigh local ones, and voters in all the states surveyed say their vote for the Senate is mainly about the direction of the country over a list of other factors. Across the states, large majorities of each candidate’s voters say their vote is explicitly to put either the Democrats or Republicans nationally in control of the Senate. …
Kavanaugh’s confirmation is unlikely to change many minds about which candidate to pick. In each state, most likely voters said that Kavanaugh’s confirmation would not change how they plan to vote next month, and among the rest, it will mostly reinforce prior decisions. CONT.
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