Many media outlets trumpeted the largest lead in the generic ballot Gallup poll in history! As you'll see in this clip the anchor trumpets that since Gallup began polling in 1942 it has never seen a lead this big. Well not rally. The important caveat that almost everyone ignored that was posted right on Gallup's website in the same article is that it is only unprecedented for Republicans.
From Gallup's article on the poll:
Large leads on the generic ballot are not unprecedented for Democrats. The widest generic ballot lead in Gallup's history was 32 points in the Democrats' favor, measured in July 1974, just prior to Republican President Richard Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandal. This large margin illustrates Democrats' historic dominance over Republicans in registered voters' party identification in the decades since World War II. Democrats controlled the House of Representatives continually between 1955 and 1995, and routinely held generic ballot leads in the double digits during that period.
If this was not pointed out to you, you would think the biggest lead a party has ever had was 10 points. Of course by looking at the same article you see that the biggest lead isn't 10, its 32. I find now that this is the biggest problem with the media. Its not what they put in their reporting its what they leave out.
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