Poll: Voters split on congressional control

Likely voters are split down the middle on which party they want to control Congress, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found.

{mosads}The poll found that 46 percent of likely voters want GOP control, while 45 percent favor the Democrats. In the GOP’s 2010 wave, Republicans held a 6-point advantage on that question.

The poll suggests that the battle for control of the Senate, which most analysts project will go to the GOP on Tuesday, isn’t over yet.

But Bill McInturff, a GOP pollster who worked on the poll, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that he was still confident of Republican success. 

“Guess what, these Senate races are in the South,” McInturff said of the Senate battleground. He added that President Obama polled with “Death Star numbers” in the South.

Fred Yang, a Democratic pollster who worked on the poll, noted that his party had a narrow lead among registered voters, which suggests a good ground game would be a big help to Democrats on Tuesday.