Democrats hold 10-point lead over GOP in battle for Congress: Poll

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDemocrats lead Republicans by ten points on the generic congressional ballot, with the midterms next week. Skip Waverly is live with the numbers.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentHank, I'm outside a campaign office with a laminated copy of the Emerson poll, and the folks behind me have been reading it for about an hour.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentIt's fifty-two percent Democrat, forty-two percent Republican, from a thousand likely voters, with a margin of error of about three points.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd September was eleven points. So it's a one-point tightening.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentRight, and here's the detail I love. Republican support has been exactly forty-two percent since Emerson started tracking in July twenty twenty-five.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFifteen months, same number.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI've got a voter here. Sir, does that number surprise you?

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   Unnamed voterNo. I've been getting the same forty-two since the summer before last, and I started to think the poll was stuck.

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   Unnamed voterI checked my calendar twice.

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentMeanwhile Democrats climbed from forty-four to fifty-two, and about five percent are undecided, mostly independents, half of whom disapprove of the president.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo five percent of the country is deciding this, and Skip is standing next to them.

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentDecision Desk HQ puts Democrats at eighty percent for the House and sixty for the Senate.

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentHank, I have never had odds like that on a live shot.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYour odds of getting a second live shot today are also holding at forty-two. Good work.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRex, it's yours. I'll be here. I'm always here.