Double-trouble for GOP: Two new polls, one tough message for midterms

Published 7:00 pm Tuesday, September 4, 2018

By Michael Graham

InsideSources.com

Republicans clinging to the hope that they can hold onto the House got some bad news on the day after Labor Day: Two new polls show voters aren’t in the mood to keep them around.

A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll finds an 11-point advantage for Democrats in the generic ballot question: 50-39 percent.

And a new Washington Post-ABC News poll gives the Democrats an even larger margin: 52-38 percent, a 14-point lead. Both are well above the 8-point Democratic advantage most pollster believe is the most the GOP House majority can withstand. It’s also significantly higher than the 4-point advantage Democrats had in this same poll in April.