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'Who do you trust?'

It's an election season, and the polls are starting to hit with increased frequency. Today, we have a new one from NPR.

Most polls we've seen thus far have a national focus. Democrats aren't doing well, but the data can be an unreliable midterm predictor because it includes a lot of states where there's nothing in play. NPR decided to cut to the chase and find out what the electoral picture looked like in just 12 senatorial battleground states.

They polled Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and West Virginia.

If Democrats were hoping they'd find a reason to smile, they're about to be sorely disappointed.

First up was Presidential approval - often a millstone around the neck of an unpopular Commander in Chief's party and still the number one predictor of midterm results.

President Obama is underwater 38 to 58 among overall voters, but the real news here is just how badly he's faring with Independents. There, he's enduring a crushing 30 point deficit - 33 to 63.

Perhaps as a result of Obama's unpopularity, the Democrats are in trouble on the generic ballot.


Check out the rest of results of the poll: http://www.caintv.com/npr-poll-of-2014-battleground
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