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Only in NY, Take ActionAugust 27, 2010 1:23pm

Majority of New Yorkers Want Continued Democratic Control of the NYS Senate

While polling at the national level for midterm elections has looked grim for Democrats, it looks like the story is more positive at the state level:

New York Democrats have had to face a rocky economy and recession-induced budget shortfalls in their first few years as the majority party in the State Senate.  But New York voters remember the previous 40 years of GOP control, and according to a new Siena College poll, only 27% of New York

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For Your ReadingAugust 17, 2010 11:07am

This Looks Scary

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Explanation of the generic ballot and relationship to predicting midterms:

Throughout the election season, the Pew Research Center and other major polling organizations report a measure that political insiders sometimes call “the generic ballot.” This measure is the percentage of voters in national surveys who say they intend to vote for either the Republican or the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in their district.*

*(If the elections for U.S. Congress were being held today, would

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