2018 Congressional Generic Ballot/House Polls Megathread 2 - no debates please

[BundouYMB]

To take any of that away from our citizens isn't even a question here and most of my fellow east Germans lived in an actual socialist dictatorship and they vote for socialists in higher numbers than their west German counterparts.

They also voted for AfD in much higher numbers than their western counterparts.

Also "higher numbers" = only 15-20% in most east German states, and that fails to mention Linke has renounced the socialist dictatorship. And AND lets not forget to mention all of the other eastern European countries where socialist parties get 0% of the vote.

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https://twitter.com/Politics1com/status/1023299853458268162

Victory Research is a new pollster whose only record is hugely missing the IL Dem Gov primary. I wouldn't trust them.

[BundouYMB]

CA-50: SurveyUSA, Aug. 22-26, 539 likely voters

Duncan Hunter (R, inc) 47
Ammar Campa-Najjar (D) 39

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But Atlas told me Hunter was doomed because people care about Republican scandals!

Well, the large difference in margin with Hunter vs. without him indicates that quite a few voters do care.  Just not enough of them to overcome the R advantage in this district.

It is a difference of 3 or 4 percent. Something like 1 out of every 25 or 1 out of every 33 voters is not really "quite a few" voters - it is a pitifully small number of voters. It is not surprising that it is so pitifully small, but it is what it is.

Why should someone from either party vote for a candidate of the opposite party, who holds none of their views on governance and will therefore vote for policies against their interests or beliefs, because of a personal scandal? It’s silly that as many people care as apparently do, just as any Democrat who votes against Menendez is being silly in NJ this year.

The time to sort out scandals etc is in the primary. Once you get to a general election, you vote for the person who most closely represents your interests, period. It is not ‘sad’ or ‘pitiful’ when a person of any background or belief system does this.

Are you arguing corruption doesn't matter? There's plenty of free democracies that have stagnant economies and declining population because they have a low quality of governance stemming from corrupt parties or politicians. Just look at eastern Europe. We're quickly heading in the direction of countries like Bulgaria, Slovakia, or Romania. Do you think those countries have the same quality of governance as western Europe?

[BundouYMB]

What the hell happened in IA-03? Didn't I hear that Young might be triaged along with Blum? Now he's up by 16?

Those are tiny sample sizes. It's 1/4th of their statewide poll.