When Americans are happy, midterms turnout is weak. But when we’re mad…
Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates along with Republican Bill McInturff and his team at Public Opinion Strategies conducted a survey that found 70% of registered voters have high interest in the election — either a “9” or a “10” on a 10-point scale.
“We know that many voters will be casting ballots with anger on their minds. We just don’t know which side will be angrier,” Horwitt told NBC News.
It’s the highest percentage ever in the survey for a midterm election.
From The Daily Wire:
“It’s an eye-popper,” said McInturff, who noted that the number is higher than in 2018, which set a turnout record for a midterm election.
What’s more, Republicans are more jazzed than Democrats for the midterms. Among GOP voters, 78% of Republicans have high interest, compared with 69% of Democrats. That 9-point edge for Republicans is triple what it was in the pollsters’ survey in September.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) predicts a red tsunami.
“I would say we’ll be between plus three and plus seven … in the Senate; and we’ll be between plus 20 and plus 50 in the House, with the most likely number being plus 44,” Gingrich told The Epoch Times.
“Almost everywhere in the country, races are showing the Republicans tightening up,” Gingrich said, noting that inflation, crime, border security, and “woke policies” are all “coming together” against the Democrats’ favor.
“When you have sort of insane left-wing Democrats who believe that you don’t need prisons and that things can be dealt with by just being nice to murderers, I think the average person just thinks this is crazy,” he said, pointing to the soaring crime and revolving door policies in New York City.
[h/t The Daily Wire]
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