WASHINGTON -- A new Associated Press-AOL poll less than two weeks before Election Day finds angry voters may be ready to hand the reins of Congress back to the Democrats after 12 years of Republican dominance.

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Middle-class voters -- those earning less than $75,000 a year and those who have graduated high school or have some college education -- fled the Democratic Party in droves in 1994, helping Republicans capture dozens of Democratic-held House seats to seize control for the first time in decades.

Now, some 56 percent of likely voters may cast a ballot on Nov. 7 to send a Democrat to the House, while 37 percent said they would vote Republican, the poll found. Read more about the poll by clicking here.

The telephone poll of 2,000 adults, 970 of whom are likely voters, was conducted by Ipsos Oct. 20-25.

The war is this voting group's most important issue. The economy and health care are close behind. A majority of middle-class voters now favor Democrats to control the House and said that Democrats best represent their most closely held beliefs, AP reported. They trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the situation in Iraq, which most of them view as a mistake.

"I don't care if I vote for Happy the Clown, just so it's not who's there now," respondent and self-described independent Mary Nyilas, 51, told AP. She said she would do everything she could to "vote against the powers that put us in this situation" in Iraq.