A new CBS News/NYT tracker poll conducted May 24-30, 2018 and released Sunday, June 3, 2018 shows that if the 2018 midterm election was held today, the Democrats would barely win control of the House, putting Nancy Pelosi back as Speaker, barely.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-battleground-tracker-the-house-is-a-toss-up/What's happening? It's June 2018, are most Americans are tuning out for a couple of months to...
1) Baseball races/Sports/NBA Finals
2) World Cup
3) Personal and daily lives
4) Democrats' lackluster messaging, GOP only appealing to partisans
5) Neither party talking about real issues
6) Apathy/fatigue over wage stagnation, gas prices increase, racial tensions, no third party, gun crisis
In the poll, it shows:
-that 51% of Americans don't want to hear candidates talk about the Russia investigation. -54% of Americans want to tune out politics over the past year -44% of Americans like that Trump is upsetting media elites and establishment77% of the participants in this poll were white Americans.
7% were black Americans.Doesn't mean anything, white and black Americans want to hear more about what candidates will do.