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Zogby Poll: Dems 11 Points Ahead in House Races

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 11:14:40 AM EST
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A new Zogby-Reuters poll finds that 44% of voters are more likely to support Democratic candidates in House races in November. Only 33% were likely to support Republican candidates.

On the issues:

Asked to rank which party they thought was better suited to handle 13 pressing issues facing the country, likely voters favored Democrats on nine of them, the Reuters/Zogby poll shows.

As to where we are headed:

Asked if the nation is headed in the right direction or was off on the wrong track, 36% said the nation is on track, while 57% said things were not going well. Just 8% of Democrats said the nation is heading on the right course, compared with 66% of Republicans and 32% of independents who said they felt that way.

Surprisingly, only 49% felt Donald Rumsfeld should be fired.

But, on Iraq,

....57% said the war has not been worth the loss of U.S. lives, while 7% said they were unsure. Asked whether the war in Iraq has been worth the loss of American lives, 36% said yes, up from 34% two weeks ago.

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    Zogby Poll: Dems 11 Points Ahead in House Races | 3 comments (3 topical)

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    wow (none / 0) (#1)
    by Punchy on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 11:26:51 AM EST
    23% STILL don't know who they're voting for?  I call shenaningans on this poll.  There's simply no way, 2 weeks from elections, that a quarter of the voters are undecided.  

    Just a few weeks ago it was something like 57% Dems, 39% Rs.  How the Dems lost 14% by doing nothing wrong tells me something's amiss with Zogby...

    Zogby (none / 0) (#2)
    by John Mann on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 03:53:05 PM EST
    Hey, is that the same Zogby who declared a win for John Kerry a couple years ago?

    I'm amazed the guy is still in business after that one.

    A new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll (none / 0) (#3)
    by Edger on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 04:11:25 PM EST
    Democrats Are Just Shy of Gaining Enough Support To Capture the Senate
    Bloomberg News, October 26, 2006

    A new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll of five states with the most hotly contested Senate races shows Democrats with the lead in Ohio, New Jersey, and Virginia. Republicans are ahead in Tennessee and Missouri.

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