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November 01, 2013
James Carville-Stanley Greenberg Poll Finds Bad News for Democratic Incumbents?
While the Republican Party has suffered more in polls than the Democratic Party since the shutdown, the parties aren't up for elections-- specific candidates are.
And the Carville-Greenberg poll finds that while support for all incumbents has declined, it has declined a great deal more for Democratic incumbents. They've lost 11 points of support, moving from +8 to -3 (underwater), while Republicans have declined from +10 to +6, a four point loss.
Mother Jones pointed this out. With the headline, ""New Poll Shows Democratic Incumbents in Big Trouble."