{"id":983924,"date":"2021-11-08T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=983924"},"modified":"2021-11-08T08:29:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:29:13","slug":"realclearpolitics-republicans-lead-generic-ballot-for-first-time-since-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/realclearpolitics-republicans-lead-generic-ballot-for-first-time-since-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"RealClearPolitics: Republicans Lead Generic Ballot for First Time Since 2014"},"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\">20<\/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%2Frealclearpolitics-republicans-lead-generic-ballot-for-first-time-since-2014%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=983924&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 class=\"subheading\">Republicans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/2022-generic-congressional-vote-7361.html\">leading<\/a> RealClearPolitics\u2019 [RCP] general ballot for the first time since 2014, according to the analysis website, which averages notable political polls in an effort to forecast election outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>RCP has Republicans up by half a percentage point on its generic congressional vote, showing 43.3 percent support for Republicans and 42.8 percent support for Democrats and potentially foreshadowing a red wave in 2022. Democrats notably maintained the lead in 2020, 2018, and 2016, though RCP showed Republicans ahead by 2.4 percentage points in 2014, halfway through former President Barack Obama\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Support for Democrats and President Joe Biden has been on the decline as the Biden administration grapples with the fallout from several failed policies at the same time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Republican Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin\u2019s win last week has largely been heralded as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/gop-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-has-only-just-begun\/\">sneak preview<\/a> for the 2022 midterms. Youngkin notably scored well with some demographics, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/30\/key-groups-glenn-youngkin-virginia-517777\">independent voters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/02\/women-power-glenn-youngkin-virginia-governor-victory\/\">white suburban women<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/02\/virginia-exit-poll-youngkin-wins-big-hispanic-voters\/\">Hispanics<\/a>, all groups which were key in securing Biden\u2019s win in 2020.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18600618\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/election-November-2-2021-Minneapolis-Minnesota-polling-place-vote-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18600618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/election-November-2-2021-Minneapolis-Minnesota-polling-place-vote-getty.jpg\" alt=\"MINNEAPOLIS, MN - NOVEMBER 02: Voters arrive at Bryn Mawr Community School on Election Day on November 2, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The mayor&#039;s position, and amendments addressing policing, housing, and executive power are all on todays ballot. (Photo by Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voters arrive at Bryn Mawr Community School on Election Day on November 2, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden and Democrats have gradually been scoring worse and worse with these demographics in the past few months, most noticeably with Hispanics and independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/22\/poll-biden-loses-big-with-hispanic-independent-voters\/\">voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver his first nine months in office, President Biden has lost support among Americans of all stripes \u2014 men and women, Black voters and white voters, Zoomers and Baby Boomers. Even Democrats writ large are more disenchanted. But two groups with whom Biden has lost support stand out: independents and Hispanics,\u201d&nbsp;FiveThirtyEight <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/biden-has-lost-support-across-all-groups-of-americans-but-especially-independents-and-hispanics\/\">reported<\/a> in late October.<\/p>\n<p>Other recent estimates are dismal for both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and show Republicans commanding an eight-point lead in the generic ballot. Biden\u2019s approval rating is now down to 37.8 percent, and Harris is worse for wear with a&nbsp;27.8 percent approval rating, the latest <em>USA Today<\/em>\/Suffolk University poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/07\/poll-biden-approval-plummets-under-38-percent-republicans-take-commanding-8-point-lead-generic-midterm-ballot\/\">found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>USA Today<\/em>\u2019s article accompanying the release of the polling confirmed other poll reports: Biden\u2019s approval has \u201ccratered among the independent voters who delivered his margin of victory over President Donald Trump one year ago.\u201d By a seven to one margin, independents believe Biden has done a worse job than they expected as president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are leading RealClearPolitics\u2019 [RCP] general ballot for the first time since 2014, according to the analysis website, which averages notable political polls in an effort to forecast election outcomes. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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-983924","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\/983924","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983924\/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=983924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}