“Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years” began the headline from the Wall Street Journal. “The new survey finds that 63% of voters hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party,” the Journal reports, “the highest share in Journal polls dating to 1990 and 30 percentage points higher than the 33% who hold a favorable view.”
The Journal poll is far from the first survey to show the party’s brand in the dumps. In an NBC News poll from March, just 27% of voters had a positive opinion about the Democratic Party — its “lowest positive rating in NBC News polling dating back to 1990.” A CNN poll earlier this month put the party’s favorability at 28%, the lowest since 1992.
Democratic politicians shouldn’t worry — at least not yet. But Democratic leaders should start fretting.
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