Blue Wave or Bust? – Control of Congress

A Suffolk University/USA Today Poll from September 2018 showed public opinion leaning 50% towards wanting Congress controlled by Democrats. If you want to get more historical data, the Roper Center has generic ballot data from the midterm election years of 1938-2014. In addition, the archive holds nearly four decades of questions on the favorability of the Democratic and Republican parties.

 

If the 2018 Congressional Election Were Held Today…

The Roper Center archive has recent opinion data from 2018, with more coming daily, that ask this question. In addition, we have received a Quinnipiac University Poll soon to be uploaded to the archive that includes trend data starting with December, 2013.   For people interested in this type of single-organization data, it is certainly worth a read.

This link will take you to the iPoll data with the question “If the election were today…”.

 

Control of Congress – Trends

With many recent polls indicating that the Democrats could gain control of one or both houses of Congress, The Roper Center has a large amount of data on what that control would mean for the Congressional agendas.  Here is a search of iPoll data about control of Congress.

 

 

Trend Data Source:  Quinnipiac University Poll, October, 2018

 

How Do People Feel About the Party in Control of Congress?–iPoll Samples