A new poll has found that a slim majority of voters believe Republicans will take back both the House and Senate during next week’s midterm elections.
A Trafalgar Group poll (pdf) found that 80.5 percent of voters believe the GOP will take at least one chamber of Congress, while 50.2 percent believe Republicans will win back both the House and Senate.
About 30.3 percent say that Democrats and Republicans will split both houses of Congress. Just 19.5 percent of respondents said Democrats would keep both chambers, Trafalgar found.
Among Democrats, only 12 percent believed that Republicans would win back both the Senate and House. About 47 percent of Democrats said that Republicans would win control of one house of Congress and Democrats would maintain control of the other, while 41 percent believe that Democrats would keep control of both chambers….