A lot can happen in the next 6 months to change the electiopn dynamic, but as it stands now, the Republicans are in better shape at this point in the campaign than they were in the wave election of 2010, and they are doing better than Democrats were in 2006 before they took the House. This Pew/USA Today survey has some good news for Republicans as well as some cautionary points: With the midterm elections six months away, Democrats are burdened by an uneven economic recovery and a stubbornly unpopular health care law. Perhaps equally important, Barack Obama’s political standing is in some respects weaker than it was at a comparable point in the 2010 campaign, which ended with the Republicans gaining a majority in the House. A national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA TODAY, conducted April 23-27 among 1,501 adults (including 1,162 registered voters), finds that 47% of registered voters support the Republican candidate in their district or lean Republican,...(Read Full Post)