{"id":1639384,"date":"2022-09-12T15:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639384"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:20:15","slug":"election-experts-predict-large-gains-for-gop-in-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/election-experts-predict-large-gains-for-gop-in-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Experts Predict Large Gains for GOP in Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felection-experts-predict-large-gains-for-gop-in-midterms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite polls that show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-democrats\">Democrats<\/a> enjoyed a summer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/2022-generic-congressional-vote-7361.html\">bounce<\/a> in generic congressional preference surveys, several key indicators presage the Democratic Party suffering considerable losses in November House, Senate, and gubernatorial races in a manner reminiscent of the 1994 Bill Clinton midterms, election experts told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1994 tilt, the Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1994\/11\/10\/us\/1994-elections-congress-overview-gop-celebrates-its-sweep-power-clinton-vows.html\">lost<\/a> 54 U.S. House seats to the GOP, culminating in the election of Newt Gingrich to the House Speakership, along with the Republican pick-up of eight U.S. Senate seats and the gain of 10 gubernatorial seats for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the aggregate number of people who have cast a ballot in each major party primary, we see a clear turnout advantage for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-republicans\">Republicans<\/a>, compared to the 2018 midterm election, with Republicans up just under 48 percent in primary turnout nationally, while the Democrats are down just over 18 percent,\u201d private pollster Jim Ellis of Ellis Insight told the Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Turnout Highlights Lack of Enthusiasm Among Democrats<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The turnout numbers highlight an important \u201centhusiasm gap\u201d that could again leave the public media pollsters\u2014as opposed to private campaign pollsters\u2014with egg on their face in November, said the experts interviewed by The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers, they seem pretty accurate from being on the ground,\u201d said Conor Maguire, a principal and managing director at WPA Intelligence, a polling firm that specializes in electing conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>In the campaigns primaries where WPA participated, they saw massive turnout amongst Republicans, added Maguire, who then also gave an additional indication of the trend away from Democrats in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw 20-25 percent of the Republican primary voters had never even voted in a Republican primary before they had come out for the first time this year,\u201d Maguire told The Epoch Times in a wide-ranging interview.<\/p>\n<p>According to Maguire, WPA, unlike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis Despite polls that show Democrats enjoyed a summer bounce in generic congressional preference surveys, several key indicators presage the Democratic Party suffering considerable losses in November House, Senate, and gubernatorial races in a manner reminiscent of the 1994 Bill Clinton midterms, election experts told The Epoch Times. 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