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Trial Balloon · Ep. 195: Shake Up

History Is On the GOP’s Side In Next Year’s Midterms

September 16, 2021 · 6:42 am ET · Leave a Comment

FiveThirtyEight: “In years when the president’s party leads the generic-ballot polling average the September before the midterms, the party underperforms those polls by an average of 9.3 points. And that, in a nutshell, is why Democrats should be concerned about the 2022 elections despite their current lead on the generic ballot.”

“This cycle so far looks a lot like former President Barack Obama’s two midterms (2010 and 2014) did for Democrats in that they lead generic-ballot polls by a few points in the September of the year before the election. But in both those years, Republicans eventually moved ahead in our generic-ballot polling average and won the election handily.”

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