Some good news today courtesy of USAToday/Suffolk University’s latest poll:
The poll of 1,000 registered voters, taken Feb. 20-24 by landline and cell phone, has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
To be sure, the political landscape undoubtedly will shift over the next eight months, and Democrats may fail to capitalize on the political opportunities they seem to face.
If the election were held today, though, those surveyed say they are more likely to vote for the Democratic candidate for Congress than the Republican one by 47%-32% — a yawning 15 percentage-point advantage. Democrats need to flip 24 seats now held by Republicans to gain control of the House of Representatives. Winning control of the Senate is more difficult in a year in which 26 Democratic seats and just eight Republican seats are on the ballot.
"A 15-point lead in the generic ballot — that's a Democratic House, without a doubt," said David Wasserman, an analyst with the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. "That would be a big wave."
November couldn’t get here any sooner.