Are Democrats Recovering?

[Purveyor]

A modest shift in public polling toward Democrats is giving some Democratic leaders hope that talk of a wave election has been overstated and that the public is -- to some degree at least -- swinging back behind the President and his party.

Both President Obama's job approval ratings and the generic ballot figures have edged toward parity over the last month, prompting some Democrats to look hopefully toward a new trend, and to a retreat from a reflexive embrace of the still-unpopular Republican Party.

"There have been a slew of polls in the last few days showing substantial movement toward the Democrats and away from the Republicans," Simon Rosenberg, the founder of the Democratic strategy outfit NDN. "There is a substantial new dynamic. The idea that this is baked in the cake is just wrong," he said.

Rosenberg wrote yesterday that "no one should be suprised. The underlining favorability of the Republican Party is still far below that of the Dems and Obama. This election has never been like 1994 where at this point there had been both a fall of the Dems and a rise in the GOP. The memory of the disasterous GOP reign in the last decade is still too fresh, their leaders still to unreformed, their candidates far too wacky, and their ideas still to reckless for the current GOP to have fully taken advantage of the Democratic underpeformance this past cycle."

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0910/Are_Democrats_recovering.html

[Deep13]

1. A little. Hopefully, we can improve on it...

...by pointing out how corrupt and batshit insane the Republicans are. Slow progress versus crazier than an outhouse rat.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. This from Politico. The tone of the narrative changes as election day approaches.

Gee. I wonder why.

[Beetwasher]

3. Voters Are Starting To Pay Attention And Realizing "Yup, Repubs Are STILL Fucking Batshit Crazy!"

n/t

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. Still early. These polls give me hope though they aren't 100% reliable

It simply proves two things:

First, voters typically start paying attention after August which seems to be the case especially after the primaries are over.
Second, it looks like the more they learn about these teabaggers and what Republicans plan to do to this country, their numbers going to shake because Americans are waking up to what's at stake!!

But, a word of caution: polls are tempered by events. The momentum can and will shift back and forth. There's still much, much work yet to be done!

LET'S KEEP WORKING!!!

[Cognitive_Resonance]

5. Yes! nt

[craigmatic]

6. The engagement gap is closed but we still need a better ground game.

[vaberella]

7. Agreed. n/t