Energized against Trump, Democrats reach +14 in the midterms

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With their supporters energized in opposition to Donald Trump, Democrats hold their widest advantage in midterm election vote preferences since 2006, when they seized control of both houses of Congress...

Democratic House candidates now lead their Republican opponents nationally by 52-38 percent among registered voters in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll – a lead that holds up across a range of likely voter models.

Surpassing that Democratic lead in vote choice, 60 percent of registered voters say they’d rather see the next Congress controlled by the Democrats, as a check on Trump, than by the GOP, to support Trump’s agenda. Preference for Democratic control is up 8 points from a year ago.

The Democrats’ advantage reflects Trump’s broad unpopularity. As reported Friday, 36 percent of Americans approve of his job performance, the lowest approval rating for a president heading into his first midterms in polling dating to 1954. Next closest were Jimmy Carter’s 42 percent in 1978; Barack Obama and Bill Clinton at 46 percent in 2010 and 1994, respectively; and Ronald Reagan’s 48 percent in 1982...

• Sixty-five percent of registered voters say it’s more important to them to vote compared with past midterm elections. Among those who approve of Trump’s work in office, 56 percent say so. But among the much larger number who disapprove of Trump, many more, 73 percent, say it’s more important to them to vote this year.

• The number of self-reported registered voters who say they’re certain to vote this year has grown from 62 percent in January to 67 percent in April to 75 percent now. Those gains have occurred disproportionately in more Democratic groups – up 24 points among blacks since April, up 17 points among 18- to 29-year-olds and up 11 points among Democrats and moderates alike, for example.

For the first time in my life, I may vote a straight Democratic ticket -- not that I really want to, it's just the thought of more time under a GOP/Trump Fascists State repulses me more than the thought of a Socialist Democracy.

Hey, you pack of morons. This presidency is completely illegitimate, the clown in the WH was jammed in there by a foreign autocrat, he is an active Russian asset for crying out loud. Nothing he does, nobody he appoints, should remain in force or in office for a New York second after he is gone. NOTHING. (Do you understand what "nothing" means? Look it up.)

Now, dimwits, the undoing of his damage will be a hell of a lot faster and easier if you *limit the damage he does ab initio*. And you don't need Asperger's to understand that, you feckless fools. You just need a modicum of both common sense and basic decency. Oh, and moral courage. That last one seems to be the main problem.

"Energized against Trump, Democrats reach +14 in the midterms"

... and prepare to blow it all, as usual, by refusing to stand up for anything, as usual... with the latest craven acquiescence being their agreement to allow The Thug Kavanaugh a SCOTUS hearing, as if he, or the proceedings, or his recently confirmed predecessor in the process (Neil Gorsuch), had any legitimacy whatsoever.

PSA to all Dem politicians everywhere:


Whew.

And now I'll tell you how I *really* feel...

(Edit in: yes, of course I will be voting! But it would help hugely if more of these clowns were vertebrates.)