DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/POLL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic voters are showing a higher level of interest in the 2018 midterm elections than are Republicans, with three-quarters of Democrats saying their vote for Congress is intended as a message of opposition to President Donald Trump, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. While Democratic interest in the election rose from March, the spike didn’t translate into gains for the party in a broader measure of the political climate: Asked which party should control the next Congress, voters favored Democrats over the GOP by 47% to 40%, down from a 10-point spread last month. The poll found that 39% of respondents approve of Mr. Trump’s job performance, with 57% disapproving. That approval rating is down 4 percentage points from last month but remains within the same, 6-point range of the past year. Mr. Trump’s highest approval rating was 44% in February 2017, and his lowest was 38% in October 2017. His job approval is the lowest of any post-World-War II president at this point in his first term.”
–Janet Hook, “Democrats Maintain Advantage Over GOP in Voter-Sentiment Poll,” The Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2018 9:00 am