Sentence examples for generic ballots from inspiring English sources

It's also why the polling averages for Senate and House generic ballots (ie, polling for congressional party choice discounting for a particular candidate) for the 2010 elections barely budged from February 2010 to October 2010.

Second, the generic ballot is unlikely to hold.

Other generic ballot polls have not necessarily followed suit, however, and are all over the map.

At this time in 1994, Democrats actually had a 6-point lead in the generic ballot.

Actually, the trend toward the G.O.P. in the generic ballot seems to go back further than that.

Just a week later, the headline on the latest Gallup poll reads "Parties Tied at 46 Percent in Generic Ballot".

So are the results of generic ballot polls, which show a roughly tied race for the U.S. House.

Although the generic ballot is a crude measure, it is probably the best macro-level indicator of the direction that the House is headed in.

(See chart)."The generic ballot helps reflect the terrain that individual campaigns are being fought on," said Glen Bolger, a prominent Republican pollster.

We noted in this space previously that the Gallup generic ballot poll had shown a substantial shift toward Democrats, giving them a 7-point advantage.

Though Republicans and Democrats score fairly evenly when pollsters ask generic ballot questions, what really matters is which side is fired up enough to get out and vote.