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In the 1990 hit film Ghost, Whoopi Goldberg looks at Demi Moore and says, Molly, you in danger,

girl.

Well, a series of new polls have come out on how Americans feel the Democratic Party, and,

well, they're in danger.

According to the NBC News poll that was released on Sunday, only 7% of Americans have a very

positive rating of the Democratic Party. Mind you, that the nation of Russia right now has a 3%

very positive rating. So Democrats are twice as more likely to be popular with American voters as the aggressor in a European war.

There are venereal diseases that are more popular right now than the Democratic Party.

And it gets worse for Democrats.

When they ask them who they prefer to run Congress, 47% of respondents say the Democrats and 46% say Republicans.

And 5% are undecided.

And you may think, well, Ryan, that's okay.

I mean, that Democrats have a point lead over Republicans than generic ballot.

It is bad because it is substantially lower than the last time Trump was in office at this time.

In April 2017, in the same NBC news poll, they found the Democrats had a four-point lead, and there was a 10% undecided.

So there was a lot more to work with.

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