As normally happens, Democrats were over-polled (see the end of the survey)
You can look at the entire poll here and draw your own conclusions, instead of the ones the press is going to tell you:
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/Late_October_NBC_WSJ.pdf
Some results make little sense:
What changed during October to make a few more people think we are on the right track?
Maybe 14% earlier in the month was an anomaly.
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Maybe the pollsters skew the numbers. Trust MSNBC,,,nah!