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A new NPR poll of 70 battleground districts (60 of them won by Democrats in 2008, and 10 held by Republicans) finds that despite the conventional wisdom of a broader anti-incumnbent sentiment, it’s really the Democratic Party that Americans are turning against.

In districts where there is a Democratic incumbent, just 34 percent said they wanted to reelect their representatives, compared with 46 percent who said they wanted to vote for somebody else. Yet in districts where there is a Republican incumbent, the opposite is true — 49 percent want to re-elect their representatives, compared with 37 percent who want to vote for somebody else.

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