Republican Election Prospects Rise as Inflation Overshadows Abortion, WSJ Poll Finds - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal

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New survey shows GOP with an borderline successful midterm voting enthusiasm arsenic economical pessimism grows

Updated Nov. 1, 2022 10:53 americium ET

Voters are giving Republicans a precocious boost successful enactment conscionable up of the midterm elections, arsenic pessimism astir the system and the absorption of the state leap to their highest levels of the year, a caller Wall Street Journal canvass finds.

The survey, conducted astir 2 weeks earlier Election Day, suggests that termination rights are little important successful voting decisions than voters indicated successful the summer, aft the Supreme Court successful June ended the national law close to abortion. Republicans person regained momentum since past and present clasp a flimsy borderline implicit Democrats, 46% to 44%, erstwhile voters are asked which enactment they would enactment successful their legislature territory if the predetermination were held today.

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