Democrats gaining Hope

Arizona immigration Law. BP spill, Shirley Sherrod. 14th Amendment. Charlie Rangel. And a wave of recent stories has the attention of most Americans. What is lost in the middle is perhaps the most important story concerning this november. According to Gallop and several polls, the democrats are beginning to close the gap in midterm elections.

Charlie Cook’s Saturday column for National Journal was titled “A Turning Point for Democrats?”

We’re currently experiencing one of those periods of uncertainty. One interpretation of recent results is that the momentum in this critical midterm election has shifted and the Republican wave has subsided. Another interpretation is that it’s too soon to tell whether much has changed at all.

For the weeks of July 12-18 and July 19-25, the Gallup Organization’s weekly aggregation of daily tracking polls showed Democrats ahead among all registered voters on the generic congressional ballot test question by 6 points (49 percent to 43 percent) and 4 points (48 percent to 44 percent), respectively. Each poll canvassed more than 1,500 registered voters nationwide. For the uninitiated, the generic ballot test question tries to approximate what the popular two-party vote will be nationwide and, over time, it has closely corresponded to the outcome on Election Day.

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