The optimistic Democratic case | Michael Tomasky

Joel Benenson, the White House's pollster, spins the numbers in the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. Here's the optimistic Democratic case, via Ben Smith:

Today's NBC/Wall St. Journal poll underscores the fact that with fewer than 90 days until the midterm elections, the Republican Party's standing is at one of its lowest points ever and its competitive position vs. the Democrats looks much as it did in the summers of 1998 and 2002, neither of which were "wave" elections...

...73 percent say...