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

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.