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Once again, obstruction works: Dems hold a 10-point lead over Republicans

By Siraj Hashmi

Published June 7, 2018 3:10pm ET

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Once again, obstruction works: Dems hold a 10-point lead over Republicans — Nila, left, and Max Williams vote in the U.S. congressional election primaries at the Oxford Conference Center in Oxford, Miss. on Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Mississippi voters on Tuesday are casting ballots in party primaries for one U.S. Senate seat and two U.S. House seats. | (Bruce Newman, Oxford Eagle via AP)

A new poll is showing that Democrats are gaining a considerable advantage over their Republican counterpart in the lead up to the 2018 midterm election.

The poll, coming from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, found that 50 percent of registered voters want a Democratically-controlled Congress as opposed to 40 percent who want Republicans to retain control over the House and Senate.

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