More than half of Americans, 55 percent, would like to see Democrats take control of Congress, according to a poll by Newsweek magazine released on Saturday. The poll of 1,000 likely voters found that 55 percent would choose a Democrat to represent their district if the vote were held now, and 37 percent said they would vote Republican. This includes 31 percent of white evangelical Christians, an increase of 6 points among that strongly Republican group over the 2004 elections.
"Similarly, Democrats now lead among white Catholics, a group that went for President George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election," Newsweek said in a statement. The poll, which had a margin of error of 4 percentage points, found that 44 percent of white Catholics planned to vote Democrat and 42 percent planned to vote Republican. |