Final Lake/Tarrance GWU Battleground poll. (D42%, R47%)

[FBaggins]

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM170_101022_bg42questionnaire.html

Democratic analysis

Our most recent POLITICO/GW Battleground Poll shows a generic congressional ballot unchanged from late September, with Republicans lacking the momentum they had hoped to generate over the course of the past month. This, despite the advantages of a highly engaged base, a change-oriented electorate (64% say we are on the wrong track) and a public image that is moderately net-positive (+7 favorable); these are all advantages that Democrats cannot currently claim. And yet, voters remain divided on which party would be better at creating jobs, at turning the economy around, at handling Social Security and on nearly every other dimension tested. In addition, while many voters have already forgotten the disastrous consequences of Republican governance a short time ago, they cannot volunteer a specific set of GOP solutions for the future. This suggests an opening in the last 10 days for Democrats to provide real definition to women and independent voters on what the future would look like — for American workers and for the country as a whole — with a resurgent Republican Party in Washington. The key to winning this election is for Democrats to clearly distinguish their economic and jobs agenda from the Republicans’ agenda.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44090.html

[jefferson_dem]

1. It also foreshadows the fucked up position the Republicans will be in ...

if (:scared:) they win the House. They will have no mandate but their teabaggin' reps will not realize it. Careful what you wish for orange man...

[Cosmocat]

2. It will be a friggen disaster of epic proportions ...

for ALL of us ...

BATTLE OF THE BULGE ...

Scratch, claw, do whatever it takes to keep even the slimmest majorities, then try to push back with BO on the ballot in 2012 ...