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2014 Elections Trend: Anti-incumbent attitudes are near a record high, but there's very few toss-up races. Why?
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2014 Elections Trend: Anti-incumbent attitudes are near a record high, but there's very few toss-up races. Why?

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Ted Bauer
Mar 06, 2014
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2014 Elections Trend: Anti-incumbent attitudes are near a record high, but there's very few toss-up races. Why?
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Check out the chart above and some of the charts herein, and you could argue that the 2014 midterms have the highest anti-incumbent polling stance in about 22-24 years -- seems like 68 percent of those polled are saying they want to "look around" at other candidates (f*ck, could you imagine if surveys about dating were phrased this way?) and 38 percent …

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