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POLLS: Surge in Republican Voter Enthusiasm -- Even Before Latest Kavanaugh Hearing



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ByJoseph Curl @josephcurl

September 30, 2018

A new Gallup poll shows Republicans' enthusiasm five weeks before the mid-term elections is rising fast, putting them neck and neck with Democrats, who held a big margin just weeks ago.
"Sixty-one percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners and 58% of Republicans and Republican leaners say they are more enthusiastic about voting in November compared to prior elections. These levels roughly match Republicans' record-high enthusiasm in 2010, Barack Obama's first midterm, when the GOP won a whopping 63 seats. But this is the first time in Gallup's trend since 1994 that both parties have expressed high enthusiasm," Gallup reported.
Most fascinating in the poll is the comparison to 2010. In the first mid-terms since Obama was elected — and the first after the passage of Obamacare without a single GOP vote — Democrats got shellacked, losing 63 seats in the House of Representatives, the largest seat change since 1948 and the largest for any midterm election since the 1938 mid-term elections. Republicans also picked up six seats in the Senate.
The rout was even worse across the country: the GOP gained 680 seats in state legislative races, breaking the previous record of 628 set by Democrats in 1974 after the Watergate scandal.
And that was before the partisan hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh this past Thursday but after his three-day hearing. The poll was conducted Sept. 17-23.
Gallup also showed that enthusiasm is running high among all adults.
"Americans' enthusiasm for voting in November is significantly higher than it was in the prior six midterm election years. Fifty-five percent of U.S. adults say they are 'more enthusiastic' about voting than usual, which contrasts with between 37% and 50% saying the same in Gallup's final pre-election surveys each midterm year from 1994 through 2014. Currently, 33% say they are 'less enthusiastic.'" Gallup reported.
Gallup's poll followed one by NBC and The Wall Street Journal last week. The Journal said, “The poll, while outlining challenges for the GOP, included some good news for Republicans. The party is closing an enthusiasm gap, with 61 percent of Republican voters now expressing high interest in the election, nearly matching the 65 percent of Democrats. In polls taken over the first eight months of the year, Democrats had held an aggregate 12-point advantage in the share of supporters showing high interest in the election.”

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Conservatives, get out & VOTE in these midterms. Let what you’ve seen from most Democrats & their vast media accomplices on this Kavanaugh coverage be your motivation. The attempted destruction of a presumption of innocence until proven guilty is serious. Your vote is your power.
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New Gallup poll reveals surge in voter enthusiasm

Gallup has some bad news for Democrats counting on a "blue wave."

October 1, 2018
By Thomas Lifson

Gallup has some bad news for Democrats counting on a "blue wave." We already know that Trump-haters are fired up, and predictions of a "blue wave" rest on the assumption that Democrats, more than Republicans, will be motivated to vote next month. But a poll from Gallup, conducted between September 17 and 23, four days before the polarizing testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, reveals that Republicans are just about as fired up as Democrats.
Today's heightened enthusiasm is the result of high levels of enthusiasm among Republicans and Democrats – possibly reflecting both party groups' enhanced recognition of the importance of the election in light of the high-stakes Kavanaugh hearings.
Sixty-one percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners and 58% of Republicans and Republican leaners say they are more enthusiastic about voting in November compared to prior elections. These levels roughly match Republicans' record-high enthusiasm in 2010, Barack Obama's first midterm, when the GOP won a whopping 63 seats. But this is the first time in Gallup's trend since 1994 that both parties have expressed high enthusiasm.

There is a lot of news ahead for us in the five weeks until the midterm elections. Judge Kavanaugh is likely to get a vote on confirmation, and the claims against him will be vetted by the FBI. Declassification of the FISA warrants and text messages will likely result in public knowledge of the conspiracy against Trump.
If GOP and Democrat voters were within the margin of error in their equal enthusiasm for voting, the prospects of a blue wave are receding. And always keep in mind that Democrat voters are concentrated in big cities, while GOP voters are ore spread out. Winning big-city congressional districts by even wider margins does not lead to more districts turning blue.

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