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   Sept 23/2018   
      
   NBC News/WSJ poll:  Democrats hold the advantage in November's elections   
      
   But the same poll shows that Republican enthusiasm about the upcoming election   
   has increased, drawing nearly even with Democrats.   
      
      
   WASHINGTON — Six weeks before the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats hold a   
   12-point lead in congressional preference among registered voters, with nearly   
   six-in-10 saying they’d like to see significant change in the direction   
   President Donald Trump    
   has been leading the country, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street   
   Journal poll.   
      
   The results suggest a political environment where Democrats have the clear   
   advantage in their pursuit to win back control of Congress in November.   
      
   “Americans are hitting the brake in a midterm, and trying to send the signal   
   that they’re not satisfied,” said Republican pollster Bill McInturff, who   
   conducted the survey with Democratic pollsters at Hart Research Associates.   
      
   “The public is clearly saying, once again, they want to shake up the status   
   quo,” added Democratic pollster Fred Yang.   
      
   https://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_38/2574996/prefer_re   
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   Still, the same poll shows that Republican enthusiasm about the upcoming   
   election has increased, drawing nearly even with Democrats; that GOP attacks   
   on immigration and Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi are potent in   
   individual races; and that nearly    
   70 percent of voters are satisfied with the economy.   
      
   In the survey, which was conducted Sept. 16-19, 52 percent of registered   
   voters say they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, versus 40 percent who   
   want the Republicans in charge.   
      
   That 12-point lead for Democrats — their highest of the cycle in the poll   
   — is an increase from August, when they held an 8-point edge, 50 percent to   
   42 percent, although the change is within the survey’s margin of error.   
      
   Among the voters who are most likely to vote — the first time the NBC/WSJ   
   poll has measured these voters for the 2018 elections — the Democrats’   
   advantage falls to 8 points, 51 percent to 43 percent.   
      
   In the larger pool of registered voters, McInturff points to warning signs for   
   Republicans. They trail Democrats among moderates and independents by more   
   than 30 points; they’re losing women ages 50 and older by nearly 20 points;   
   and they’re behind    
   among voters living in competitive congressional districts by 12 points, 53   
   percent to 41 percent.   
      
   Additionally, a combined 59 percent of voters say they’d like to see either   
   “a great deal of change” or “quite a bit of change” in the direction   
   Trump has been leading the country.   
      
   That includes 61 percent of independents and even a third of Republican   
   respondents.   
      
   And by a 42 percent-to-31 percent margin, voters say their message in November   
   will be for more Democrats to serve as a check and balance to Trump and the   
   congressional Republicans, instead of Republicans who will help Trump and the   
   GOP pass their agenda.   
      
   https://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_38/2575006/want_my_v   
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   The groups with the highest level of interest in the election: Seniors (73   
   percent register either a “9” or “10), Democrats (65 percent), whites   
   (61 percent), Republicans (61 percent) and African Americans (53 percent).   
      
   The groups with the lowest level of interest: Independents (37 percent) and   
   those ages 18-34 (35 percent).   
      
   https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_38/2575016/highest_l   
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   More:     
   https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/nbc-news-wsj-poll-de   
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