GOP in best position in recent memory

 Hot Air:

Milestone: GOP sees best polling in generic ballot average since 2010

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 Today?

That’s rare air for the GOP. A lead as big as four points is rare air too, as they didn’t have that kind of advantage in 2010 until late July.

And if all of that’s not frightening enough for Democrats, note that the 2020 generic ballot polling badly underestimated Republican support on Election Day. The final average that year put the GOP at just 42.5 percent but the party ended up taking 47.7 percent of the vote on November 3, good enough to shrink Nancy Pelosi’s margin in the House and almost flip the chamber. Presumably that was due to the same phenomenon that led pollsters to underestimate Trump’s support — nonresponse bias, in which pollsters fail to detect the true strength of a certain constituency (namely, conservatives) because some meaningful segment of that group simply refuses to respond when pollsters call them.

If nonresponse bias is still at work in today’s data, the true level of GOP support on the generic ballot may be in uncharted territory.

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I am among those voters who cannot wait to vote against Democrats.  Not only is Biden a disaster, but the Democrats in Congress are too. 

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