Democratic Pollster: Midterm Voters Want to Punish Obama, Not Reward Republicans
As the election nears, Geoff Garin says he's less pessimistic about his party's chances of holding the Senate.
Geoff Garin
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Republicans eyeing a Senate majority in Tuesday's election are burdened by an unappealing party brand on policy issues that didn't exist in the last midterm election, according to a leading Democratic pollster.
"There was no content to the Republican brand" in 2010 and there is now "a much more robust view of the Republican Party as being too extreme, too obstructionist, and too likely to side with millionaires over the middle class," Geoff Garin, the president of Hart Research Associates, told Bloomberg News editors and reporters Wednesday in Washington.