Mother Knows Best - Mother Jones Predicts Doom for Democrats

By Elizabeth Nelson

I have to admit, I’m loving this, because I’m sure I will never see this again, in my lifetime. A Mother Jones poll that is almost unbiased and brutally honest towards the Democrats. 

Usually, all we hear from the liberal mother is Republican bashing, and left leaning spin, but this poll does indeed show that the Democrats have taken a beating and could indeed be in big trouble in 2014.

Today brings a new poll from Democracy Corps titled "Revolt against DC and the Republican Congress." And it's true: their polling shows that even in Republican districts, the GOP's brand has taken a beating.

But once you get past the generic questions and ask about approval/disapproval of actual members of Congress, the picture turns sharply. I've combined two charts to show what happens when you ask people in battleground districts about their own representatives:

In Democratic districts, net incumbent approval has plummeted by 11 points, from +8 approval to +3 disapproval. In Republican districts, incumbent approval has gone down only 4 points. You see the same results when they ask a question about warmth of feeling toward incumbents: It's down 7 points in Republican districts and 9 points in Democratic districts.

This isn't good news for Democrats. It's true that attitudes toward the Republican Party have taken a bigger hit than attitudes toward the Democratic Party, but attitudes toward actual incumbents are exactly the opposite. And in elections, that's what matters. Read More Motherjones

We can only hope that this poll has some shred of prophetic truth to it, and gives us a little sense of hope, that perhaps we can indeed take control of the Senate, and then we can fix what’s broken, one policy at a time.