WASHINGTON – Republicans enjoy a substantial “enthusiasm gap” in which their supporters are more likely to vote in this fall’s elections for control of Congress than Democratic voters, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
The poll found that 51 percent of Republicans are very enthusiastic about voting, a large edge over the 32 percent of independents who are very enthusiastic and almost twice the 28 percent of Democrats.
That large gap – a strong indicator that Republicans are more likely to vote – dominates the landscape despite claims by top Democrats that they’re slowly but surely getting their voters more excited and closing the gap.
“We’re beginning to see some signs of progress out there,” David Plouffe told reporters Thursday; he was President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager and is now a top adviser to Democrats. He provided no polls to back up the claim.
“We’re not seeing that,” said Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College, which conducted the national poll.
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