Independents Break Hard to GOP

With just over a week until election day, the mood of the country portends doom for the party in power–the Democrats. A new CBS News Battleground Tracker/YouGov poll shows 79 percent of Americans believe the country is “out of control” with only 21 percent saying things are “under control.” The poll also shows a sharp break by independents to Republicans took place over the past two weeks.

The views on the direction of the country and state of the economy are almost as bad.

73 percent believe things are “going badly” in America (42 percent say very badly), only 26 percent say things are “going well” (6 percent say very well.)

69 percent say the economy is “bad” (40 percent very bad) while 27 percent say the economy is “good” (7 percent say very good.)

Joe Biden’s approve/disapprove is 44/56 (22 percent strongly approve/44 percent strongly disapprove.)

In the generic Congressional ballot preference question, Republicans have a two point advantage, 47/45 over Democrats.

Independents favor Republicans by an astonishing 49 percent to 33 percent. Two weeks ago the Democrats were favored 40 percent to 38 percent.

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CBS News /YouGov: Generic Congressional Ballot Polling Trends Among 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬

October 14:

Democrats 40% (D+2)

Republicans 38%

October 28:

Republicans 49% (R+16)

Democrats 33%

✅ That's 𝟭𝟴-𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧 Swing among Independents towards the GOP

Poster Comment:

Things are worse for the Democrats than these numbers indicate. I have the feeling that like most polls they over poll Democrats. This election should be a wipe out except in areas where the Democrats are stealing votes by the millions.