Democrats recorded a 46 percent to 40 percent advantage over Republicans when likely voters were asked who they would chose if elections for Congress were held today, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Wednesday.
In the survey, 5 percent prefer another candidate, while 9 percent are undecided.
For a few weeks in May, the parties were virtually tied in poll concerning the generic ballot, but the Democrats regained their lead and have held it since.
However, the advantage by the Democrats did slip by one percentage point from last week, although it was still higher than two weeks ago, when the Republicans were only four percentage points behind in the poll on the generic ballot.
In the House of Representatives, Republicans currently have a 47-seat majority, so Democrats would need to take away 24 GOP seats in order to gain control. However, a major problem for the Democrats is all but about 50 of the seats are almost guaranteed shoo-ins for the party that now holds them.
In the Senate, 32 seats are up for grabs this November in the midterm elections, but a whopping 23 of them are now held by Democrats. That means Democrats would need to hold all 23 of those and pick up two of the Republican seats to win control of the Senate.
The survey of 2,500 likely voters was conducted June 24-28. The margin of sampling error is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.
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