CNN data analyst Harry Enten gave the Democratic Party more bad news during a daytime show segment on Monday with host Jessica Dean. Citing two very recent surveys from The Wall Street Journal and his own network, Enten said the Democratic Party was polling at historic lows for both outlets dating back to the early 1990s.
“Let’s take a look at Dems and let’s look at their net favorable ratings. Whoa, woof. I mean, my God, you know, we mentioned CNN. We had that poll come out a little while ago on their net favorable rating. They were 26 points underwater,” Enten began.
“You think that’s low enough? How about we go even lower? We’ll go to this side of the screen. I’m going to walk over here. We go to the Wall Street Journal, minus 30 points, 30 points underwater, their lowest on record,” he continued. “These polls have records going all the way back since the early 1990s. And when it comes to the Democratic Party’s net favorable rating in both the Wall Street Journal poll and the CNN poll, the Democratic Party is breaking records in a way, Jessica Dean, you don’t want to break records.”
He then went on to address how self-identified “independents” view the party. “OK, so we’re talking about overall here. But we started off this segment for the first three slides talking about independents. Why don’t we talk about the Democratic Party’s favorable rating among independents in our CNN-SSRS poll? Look at this. 19, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. 19 percent,” he said.
“If I can count it, you know, it’s low and it is extremely low when it comes to independents and the Democratic Party. Independents hate everybody. But that’s one of the reasons why the election next year is going to be so interesting because when it comes to independent voters, the bloc, a group that actually decides elections, they hate everybody,” he said.
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