How Will Your Party Do Next November, Compared with Previous Elections? % saying their party will do BETTER than inrecent elections. Based on registered voters Republicans/ Republican leaners Democrats) Democratic lea ners
The new national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA TODAY, conducted Dec. 3-8 among 2,001 adults, finds that 55% of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters expect the GOP to do better than it has in recent elections, 33% think it will do about the same, while just 5% say it will do worse. Democrats and Democratic leaners are less confident: 43% say the party will do better than in recent elections, 43% about the same and 9% worse.
At this point in the 2006 election, Democrats were highly confident of victory. In December 2005, 64% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters expected their party to do better in the 2006 midterms than in other recent elections; just 16% of Republican voters felt the same way about the GOP’s prospects.
How Will Your Party Do Next November,  | Compared with Previous Elections?  | % saying their party will do BETTER than inrecent  | elections. Based on registered voters  | Republicans/ Republican leaners  | Democrats) Democratic lea ners  | Dec  | 55  | 2013  | 43  | 72  | June  | 2010  | 29  | 16  | Dec  | 2005  | 64  | Survey conducted Dec 3-8 2013 Based on registered voters  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER/USA TODAY 