{"id":834905,"date":"2021-10-01T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=834905"},"modified":"2021-10-01T11:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:28:46","slug":"congressional-democrats-hold-an-eight-point-advantage-over-republicans-poll-shows-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-democrats-hold-an-eight-point-advantage-over-republicans-poll-shows-but-theres-a-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Democrats Hold An Eight-Point Advantage Over Republicans, Poll Shows, But There\u2019s A Catch"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fcongressional-democrats-hold-an-eight-point-advantage-over-republicans-poll-shows-but-theres-a-catch%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=834905&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>Congressional Democrats hold an eight-point advantage over Republicans for the 2022 midterm elections, a new poll shows, even as President Joe Biden\u2019s approval numbers remain slightly underwater.<\/p>\n<p>Registered voter respondents to the <a href=\"https:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_PLCV_202109271420.pdf\">NPR\/Marist poll<\/a> chose Democrats over Republicans 46% to 38% when faced with a hypothetical party-line vote about their district\u2019s 2022 election.&nbsp;Though the poll showed Democrats\u2019 congressional support was greater than Biden\u2019s 45% approval rating, so, too, was Biden\u2019s disapproval number \u2014 46%.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 polling advantage comes as they work to strike an intraparty compromise on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/29\/joe-biden-build-back-better-agenda-costs-zero-dollars-economists-less-convinced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sweeping social spending package<\/a>. Leadership, Senate moderates and top White House officials negotiated until about 11 p.m. Thursday night, ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/infrastructure-vote-delayed-talks-stall-left-wing-vow-sink-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">delaying a long-sought vote<\/a> on the infrastructure package as it became clear that left-wing Democrats would deny it the support needed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-point gap between support for Democrats and Republicans in Congress, however, comes with a catch. Since Democrats are overwhelmingly located along the coasts and in urban areas, Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/09\/30\/1041602893\/bidens-approval-rating-recovers-some-from-last-months-low-an-npr-poll-finds\">told NPR<\/a>, an eight-point advantage may not translate to the dozens of swing seats in the South and Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>Miringoff added that an infrastructure compromise could boost congressional Democrats and Biden, especially among Democratic voters who disapproved of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/27\/peter-meijer-cooperating-taliban-save-american-lives-afghanistan-infuriating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are still some Democrats on the table,\u201d he said. \u201cThose are winnable people. If [Biden] can get past this current congressional battle, there\u2019s the potential some of them could come home.\u201d <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/infrastructure-vote-delayed-talks-stall-left-wing-vow-sink-it\/\">(RELATED: House Democrats Delay Infrastructure Vote After Talks Stall, Left-Wing Dems Reaffirm Vow To Sink It)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7292458\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7292458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on Monday. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The poll also found that a majority of Americans have a \u201cgreat deal\u201d or \u201cgood amount\u201d of trust in the fairness of U.S. elections despite former President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/donald-trump-endorsed-maricopa-county-audit-biden-won-larger-margin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discredited<\/a> assertions that the 2020 election was rigged.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s&nbsp;claims, however, may have convinced many Republicans. Nearly 70% of registered Republican respondents to the NPR\/Marist poll said they trusted that American elections are fair \u201cnot very much\u201d or \u201cnot at all,\u201d compared to fewer than 15% of their Democratic counterparts&nbsp;and just over 40% of Independents who share in that sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found majority support for Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate for large employers, including support from 76% of black Americans, 57% of Latino Americans and 53% of white Americans. That said, support for vaccination requirements was also sharply split along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted by interview from Sept. 20-26 among 1,220 American adults, and it has a margin of error of 3.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Democrats hold an eight-point advantage over Republicans for the 2022 midterm elections, a new poll shows, even as President Joe Biden\u2019s approval numbers remain slightly underwater.Registered voter respondents to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}