WE HOPE IT'S ACCURATE, AND A TREND – AT 11:32 A.M. ET:  The Republican electoral position appears to be improving.  From the Washington Examiner: 

When the new Congress reconvenes in January, voters increasingly want it to be a Republican-led one.

With approximately two weeks to go until the 2014 midterm elections, likely voters prefer them to produce a GOP-led Congress over a Democratic one, 49 percent to 44 percent, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Annenberg poll.

Registered voters — a larger group than likely voters — also said they’d prefer Congress to become led by Republicans, 45 percent to 43 percent, the poll found.

This favoring of Republicans is a first since the poll began asking about it five weeks ago.

Though Democrats carry a 10-point lead among low-interest voters, Republicans carry a 10-point lead among high-interest voters, the poll also found.

The poll of 1,172 registered voters — 484 of them likely voters — was conducted Oct. 10-16 with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3.56 percentage points.

COMMENT:  Good.  I hope it translates into real votes.  I expect the Dems to throw a curve in the next few weeks.  We have to be ready to handle it.  Or, there can be a convenient three-days-before-election news story, generated by the Obama press. 

I'm hoping for a celebration.  Already bought the hot fudge.

October 19, 2014