Democrats' edge over GOP in midterms waning, poll finds
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Date: April 16, 2018 02:16PM
Voters are still more likely to support Democrats in November’s midterm elections, but a new poll shows the party’s edge is slowly deteriorating.
Roughly 47 percent of registered voters said they would cast their ballots for their congressional district's Democratic candidate in the upcoming race for the House of Representatives, and 43 percent said they preferred the Republican contender, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
That Democratic advantage, at 4 percent, weakened significantly since the beginning of the year, when the party had a 12 percent lead over the GOP, according to an earlier Post-ABC poll. In January, 51 percent of registered voters said they would vote for the Democratic candidate, and 39 percent said they would vote for the Republican candidate.