USA TODAY: One week before Election Day, Democrats face a record-setting “enthusiasm gap” that positions energized Republicans to score sweeping victories in next week’s congressional elections, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.
Despite across-the-country rallies by President Obama and get-out-the-vote efforts by his allies, only 37% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning registered voters report more enthusiasm than usual about voting, a decline from early in the year.
Meanwhile, 63% of Republicans and Republican-leaning registered voters say they are more enthusiastic than usual, the biggest advantage for either party on this key measure in any midterm election since Gallup began asking the question in 1994. Then, Republicans had a 9-point enthusiasm advantage in a year Democrats lost control of the U.S. House and Senate… (more)
