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Democrats have lost ground on the question of which party would make the country better off by controlling Congress, a poll conducted by Opinion Research Corp. July 31 to Aug. 4 for CNN.

Forty-four percent said the country would be better off if Democrats controlled Congress, a drop of 5 percentage points for Democrats from an April survey, when 49 percent favored them to run the Congress.

Republicans, though, didn't pick up any of the Democrats' lost support. The GOP held steady with 34 percent saying the country would be better off with them in charge.

The Democratic defectors instead opted for a third choice: "Neither," which rose from 11 percent to 14 percent, according to the CNN poll. T The poll was based on telephone interviews with 1,136 American adults and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.