Schmoll: In 2006, Democrats Led in Net Favorability by 18 Points. In 2018, by 12. And Now?
Republicans Lead by Five.

Video of CNN informing its audience that Democrats are not doing that well below.

7 CNN: Republicans lead in net favorability ahead of the 2026 midterms

Republicans vs Democrats net favorability

2006: 🔵 D+18
2018: 🔵 D+12
2026: 🔴 R+5

That's a SEVENTEEN point swing.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 07, 2026 01:43 PM (FmapG)

Democrats do lead on the "generic congressional ballot," but by a historically small lead: five points.

Yes, they're ahead -- but only barely. Given historical precedent and the current political environment, they should be running away with it.

But they're not.

"This lead is historically low for Democrats at this point with a Republican president," Enten said. "On average, their lead's actually slightly less. It's five points. That's less than it was back in 2018 when it was eight points and way less than it was during the 2006 cycle when it was 11 points."

Five points.

Now, I don't exactly trust the approval rating polls showing that President Donald Trump at -20 or -30, but still, with numbers like that, Democrats should be crushing the GOP in the general congressional ballot, but they're not.

"You'd make the argument, Democrats should be way ahead, and they're just only sort of slightly ahead," Enten pointed out.

In Virginia, Abigail Spannberger, a woke Deep State traitor, ran as a "moderate centrist."

This was, of course, a lie to con the rubes.

But the rubes are noticing, and her approval rate is plunging as Virginia voters realize they've been lied to.

Just two months into her term of office, Gov. Spanberger's approval polling is barely above water. Her win last year was supposed to be the victory of pragmatic moderation over the voices of the far left, but since then Virginia voters seem to have realized she's a left-wing partisan, not a moderate. Today the Washington Post has a story about this sudden turnaround. Advertisement

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's approval rating stands at 47 percent two months into the Democrat's term, with 46 percent of voters disapproving and 7 percent expressing no opinion in a Washington Post-Schar School poll.

Spanberger won in a 15-point landslide last year after touting her reputation for bipartisanship built on three terms representing a conservative-leaning district in Congress. But her current ratings reflect sharp polarization among Virginia voters in their views of the state's first female governor.

The approval mark for Spanberger is 13 percentage points lower than the average for Virginia governors in Post polling since the 1990s. Her near-even split between approval and disapproval is a worse net approval rating than the early-term scores of her predecessors in previous Post polls. It is also slightly weaker than ratings of her immediate predecessor, Glenn Youngkin (R), in a Post-Schar School poll last fall, showing he ended his term with 50 percent approval and 46 percent disapproval.

So where is the "sharp polarization" coming from? It's coming from Spanberger herself who hasn't been content to focus on affordability and is instead focused on issues like making sure police don't cooperate with ICE.

The Democrats, of course, intend to lie their way into office this year. They will almost all claim to be moderate, except for the designated woke warrior bomb-throwers in safe districts who will be allowed to preach the True Democrat Religion.

It's important to really push the Spannberger story and show that she lied and therefore all the other Democrats running the Spannberger Playbook are lying as well.

Some other bits:

The NYT's portrait of a stalker:

The left is pushing the 25th Amendment for Trump again, after assuring us for four years that Biden was a highly engaged "super-ager" who ran circles around his 30-year-old staffers.

By the way, they really freaked out when Trump called a lid on Saturday and did not interact with the press for 24 hours. They were certain he was incapacitated.

In fact, he was locked in the Situation Room monitoring the rescue effort he'd ordered.

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