Sunday, October 10, 2010

Democrats: Heading for a once in a generation electoral shellacking

Over the weekend I wrote a piece on how some liberal elites, not least at The New York Times, remain in denial over the scale of the disaster the Left is facing at the polls in November. Well, I hope they’re taking a close look today at the latest Gallup poll, which is enough to make any White House adviser weep.

Gallup’s new survey of more than 3,000 adults, including over 2,700 registered voters (1,800 of whom are highly likely to vote), shows Republicans with “a double-digit advantage” under two separate scenarios – lower and higher turnout. Under the higher turnout scenario, the GOP lead is 13 percentage points, while under the lower turnout scenario it is even higher, at 18 points:...

...How substantial could GOP gains be based on the Gallup numbers? According to Michael Barone, arguably America’s most influential election analyst, those gains could be the biggest since 1946, 1928 or even 1894, let alone 1994.
Read the rest here.

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