Politico’s Poll Showing Democrats In Trouble This Midterm Election Is a Total Crock
However, please let's not let up on GOTV
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/19/politicos-poll-showing-democrats-trouble-midterm-election-total-crock.html
Along racial demographics, this poll’s respondents are mostly white. While less than 64% of this country now identifies as being non-Hispanic white, 77% of those interviewed by Politico’s polling firm are white. Only 7% of those polled are Hispanic, despite Hispanics making up over 16% of the population now. Even when going based on likely voter percentages, it still provides a skewed total. Non-Hispanic whites represented less than 74% of the actual voters in the last election and 73% of the registered voters. Considering the efforts to get more Hispanics registered and engaged, it would seem like they are underrepresented in this poll. But, once again, it could just be the districts and states.
There’s another piece of data that strains the credibility of this poll. While we’ve already pointed out how the poll is skewed to represent old, white Republicans, it is possible that this is just what the data provides in these competitive races. However, when it is broken down by region, we see that 31% of the respondents are from the South Atlantic. However, this region represents only three of the 16 Senate races this poll is supposed to cover (Georgia, West Virginia, North Carolina) as well as eleven (four in Florida, one in Georgia, one in North Carolina, three in West Virginia, two in Virginia) of sixty House races. So, even though the South Atlantic only accounts for 18.75% of the competitive Senate races and 18.33% of the House races, Southern voters make up nearly one-third of the poll’s respondents.
Now, it could be that the combined population of the districts and states for the South Atlantic is greater than that of the other races they are polling, leading to the preponderance of Southern voters in this poll. However, when you combine all of these little outliers we see in this poll together, you get a very Republican-friendly result. Basically, you have a bunch of old, white, Southern voters who are still angry about Obamacare, despite the fact that the rest of the country has moved on (60% of respondents stated that we should still be debating the health care law, which is pretty much the opposite of what we’ve seen in recent nationwide polls.)
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if and when legitimate criticisms should be raised. Many of the polls in 2012, as I recall, had Romney winning and Obama losing though obviously he didn't (and why did anybody *really* think that he would?). Also, a singular poll is less revealing that multiple polls taken over a period of time. Plus, Politico can hardly be said to be friendly/unbiased towards Dems. This could well be an outlier. None of this is to say that we shouldn't take bad results seriously and/or that we should convince ourselves that all is well and that we should just rest on our laurels but there are some funky polls put out there sometimes and questioning them doesn't mean that we are just deluding ourselves into believing something that isn't true. Just like we shouldn't disbelieve everything we hear/read, neither should we uncritically believe everything that everybody puts out there either, particularly coming from a source that is known to be hostile to Dems. 
Yeah, that's the ticket! 
K&R!
Start watching their 'polls' after Labor day...and compare them back to now. You will fully believe that you're looking at 2 different websites
