NBC News’ final poll ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections shows that “the overall political environment remains grim for Democrats.”
One of the numbers that “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd called the most important in the entire poll is what voters think about the economy.
This is not good news for Democrats.
According to questionnaire81 percent said they were “very” or “somewhat” dissatisfied with the state of the economy, while more than 70 percent believed the United States was heading in the wrong direction.
“It’s the second highest we’ve ever had,” Todd said. “The last time such a high level was just before the elections in 2010. And you know how it went.
NBC SURVEY: 81% of Americans say they are “dissatisfied” with the state of the economy.
“This is the second highest number we have ever recorded. The last time it was this high was just before the elections in 2010.” pic.twitter.com/P9eFRqpRzU
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 6, 2022
For the record, Democrats’ attacks went far beyond the halls of Congress:
On Election Day 2010, Democrats suffered huge losses at every level. They lost 63 seats in the House and control of the chamber. They lost six seats in the Senate. They suffered a net loss of six governorates. Due to the special election and party switching, Democrats lost 720 legislative seats; 26 legislative bodies were under full GOP control. Combined with state losses, this meant that the political levers in key states – Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona and North Carolina – were entirely in GOP hands. Republicans also gained six attorney general positions, the consequences of which became clearer each year as they unleashed a wave of lawsuits against key Obama programs. (Washington Post.)
Former President Barack Obama’s senior adviser David Axelrod knew how badly things were going for Democrats, according to political analyst Jeff Greenfield.
“It was December 16, 2008,” he told me. “We had a briefing with our economics team. They told us that economic recovery would take years, not months, because recessions caused by financial crises always last longer. When we left, I told the president, “We’re going to get a kick in the middle of the semester.”
