With a year to go until the 2018 elections, Democrats have a big polling advantage. According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll:
A slim 51 percent majority of registered voters say that if the election were held today, they would vote for or lean toward the Democratic candidate in their congressional district, while 40 percent say they would choose the Republican.
That’s the biggest spread in a Post-ABC survey since October 2006, just weeks before a midterm in which Democrats won back control of the House and Senate amid deep dissatisfaction with then-President George W. Bush and the Iraq War.
That’s great news—but there’s a year to go, and even if the polling is the same a year from now, Democrats will still have to push to overcome traditionally higher Republican turnout for midterm elections and Republican voter suppression, to say nothing of massive Republican gerrymandering. Luckily, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans seem determined to give Democrats a hand with their widely hated attacks on health care and unpopular plan to cut taxes for the rich.
Democrats have a chance to make major gains in 2018. Help make that possible by giving $1 to the Democratic nominee fund in each targeted House district.