We're beatin em' boys

[ekelmore]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A CNN poll released Wednesday may continue the anxiety for the GOP, showing Democrats with a 14-point advantage over Republicans among registered voters asked their preferences in this year's midterm elections.

The poll, conducted for CNN by Opinion Research Corp., found that 52 percent of respondents who were registered voters said they were leaning toward voting for a Democrat, while 38 percent said they were leaning toward a Republican.

Ten percent said they didn't know how they would vote or that they would choose a candidate not from the two major parties. (Watch what is pulling down the president's approval rating -- 2:07)

Among all Americans, the poll found 50 percent leaning toward Democrats, 37 leaning toward the Republicans and 3 percent intending to vote for non-majority candidates. Ten percent had no opinion

The poll, based on telephone interviews with 1,021 adult Americans between Friday and Sunday, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. (View the poll results -- PDF)

Republicans are suffering politically, the poll suggested, because nearly half of the Americans interviewed said they think the country is on the wrong track.

Woo hoo.

[saltpoint]

1. Wrong track!? How absurd. Couple more tax cuts & we'll be just fine.

[lvx35]

2. Woohoo! Now that's music to my ears :) nt

[bluerum]

3. Wish that we were seeing a true change in party support and

affiliations. I think that what we are seeing are some of the results of the self-inflicted wounds.

All the scandals, greed, shotgun diplomacy, and mismanagement have taken a big toll on the country. We can easily paint the republicans with this.

But I think this is more of a short term reaction away from corrupt and greedy conservative politicians than it is a shift toward more humanistic democratic ideology.

[ekelmore]

4. Wish I could say I disagree with you...

...but you're almost certainly right. But any shift is a shift in the right direction at this point. Hopefully our democratic leaders don't let us down, and use this opportunity to establish democratic ideals that are both realistic and applicable. Maybe that will lead to a genuine shift.

[Demeter]

5. It Should Be 40%

Anything less is not big enough to prevail.