There are 95 days left until this year's mid-term elections. Plenty of time for the "slings and arrows of outrageous Fortune" to find their targets.

However, here's some good news for those of us who are hoping to flip the House and perhaps even the Senate on November 2 (bolding and coloring mine):

On the whole, 58 percent of voters see Democrats as liberal or very liberal, while 56 percent see Republicans as conservative or very conservative; no surprise there. But voters now place themselves much closer to the Republican Party than to the Democratic Party on this left-right continuum. Indeed, the ideological gap between the Democratic Party and the mean voter is about three times as large as the separation between that voter and the Republican Party. And, startlingly, the electorate places itself a bit closer to the Tea Party movement (which is well to the right of the Republican Party) than to the Democratic Party. All this represents a major shift from five years ago, when mean voters placed themselves exactly halfway between their ideological perceptions of the Democratic and Republican parties.
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Shifts among Independents are especially notable. A Pew survey in June 2005 found that Independents considered the Republican Party to be twice as distant from them ideologically as the Democratic Party. Today, Independents see the Democratic Party as three times farther away than the Republican Party. In 2005, 51 percent of Independents thought that the Republican Party was more conservative than they themselves were, versus only 36 percent who thought that the Democratic Party was more liberal. Today, 56 percent of Independents see the Democratic Party as more liberal than they themselves are, compared to only 39 percent who see the Republican Party as more conservative."

Good news, certainly. But let's also remember the ole adage:

Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch (DCYCBTH).

Gotta stay motivated, as there's lots more work to do.

Again, ...

Days left until November 2: 95

Source: http://www.tnr.com/blog/william-galston/76631/democrats-republicans-popularity-new-demographics