Republicans have a two-point advantage over Democrats with just weeks until the midterm elections.
A new NBC News/WSJ Poll shows likely voters want a Republican-controlled Congress by a margin of 46 percent to 44 percent. That’s a much slimmer advantage than the seven-point lead the GOP had on Democrats in 2010, when a wave of Tea Party candidates helped oust Democrats from their House majority and picked up seats in the Senate.
“There may be a political hurricane in November, but today you have to look at the forecast, and it looks like swirling winds,” Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducted the poll with Republican Bill McInturff, told NBC news.
Some key figures in the poll include this one: 65 percent of likely voters said they believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, while only 28 percent told pollsters they think the economy will improve in the next year.
The poll included some good news for Democrats.
In the top 11 competitive Senate races, Democrats were favored generically by a margin of 47 percent to 42 percent. A month ago, the GOP lead the generic ballot in those races by 10 points.
