Democrats and other left wing media outfits have been trying to hype up the “impending” blue wave this coming November. Some hacks, like Chuck Todd claim that Democrats will do what Republicans did in 2010 and gain over 60 seats in the house. But at least one liberal pollster, for CBS is claiming there isn’t going to be a blue wave all. Most so called “toss up” seats will stay with Republicans with Democrats gaining a handful of seats.
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The head pollster for CBS News, Anthony Salvanto, doesn’t think we’ll see a Blue Wave this November — and certainly not one close to the Red Wave of 2010.
Salvanto learned from the failure of polls to predict the 2016 election. He saw that the two polls that ended up being right — the LA Times/USC and IBD/TIPP — were tracking polls, so he designed one himself to use in 2018. Tracking polls differ from regular “horse race” polls in that they poll the same sample of people over and over to see if and how their views have changed over the campaign.
Salvano’s team is polling 5,700 voters in the 50 or 60 districts that could flip the House of Representatives and Senate into Democrat hands. So far, he doesn’t see much flipping.