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Aug 24 4 tweets 4 min read
Following a slew of Democratic overperformances (#NY19, #NY23, #MN01, #NE01) and a polling surge for them post-Dobbs, we have some ratings changes @SplitTicket_ to announce.

#WISen: Lean R -> Tossup
#PASen: Tossup -> Lean D
#AZSen: Tossup -> Lean D

split-ticket.org/2022/08/24/tem…
@SplitTicket_ I'm not saying Oz can't win. Nor am I saying Masters cannot. I'm simply saying that you cannot create a credible case at the moment to say either of those two candidates is favored, and that's what you'd need to keep a race at a tossup. Rs have a chance, but Ds have the edge.
@SplitTicket_ I will not be moving NH until the primary. If Bolduc wins, #NHSen is Likely Democratic.

Anyways, I'm sure this will produce well-reasoned, good-faith discourse!
there’s, uh, a very clear chance for Rs to win the senate even now, just to be clear — I think some are forgetting this. all I’m saying is that given how it looked pre-Dobbs, the fact that we’re in a place where Dems have a lane at possibly expanding their majority is crazy.

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Aug 25
This isn’t as big of an outlier as people think, in some way. Emerson has Trump +5 and Oz underruns that by 9. They have the generic ballot at R+1 — Oz underruns it by 5. When you look at the candidate effects, the same story is being told.

Average the poll and move on.
I don’t think it’s worth discarding the poll, and I also don’t think it’s worth discarding all the others that show Fetterman up double digits, given the volume of them we’ve gotten. Whether you believe this or not is a function of how Republican you think the final electorate is
I don’t have much of an opinion on this beyond “interesting poll, continues to show Oz has serious problems as a candidate overall, and is probably much closer to the final result than Fetterman +13, but just average them instead of cherry-picking what to use and what not to use”
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Aug 24
National Democratic figures did not expect to win #NY19. Molinaro is as good of a candidate as the GOP could have picked, and this is exactly the type of district they need to win if they want to have a good November.

Pat Ryan winning is nothing short of a horrid result for Rs.
Every poll indicated Molinaro winning by mid single digits. Data For Progress had Molinaro up by 8. Polls massively undershot the Democratic margin.

If you need another confirmation of a very real shift post-Dobbs, here it is. 2022 is shaping up as a neutral year, not a red wave
Republicans outspent Democrats by over a million dollars in this race. This is not the type of result you’d expect if it was anything close to a wave.

At some point, history is not as informative as current data. The House is not safe R, and Ds are favored in the Senate.
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Aug 23
The problem for Oz is that voters might very well be concerned about the health and fitness of a candidate after a major stroke, but putting out an attack on that rightly makes you look like a ghoul.
Oz's strategy basically boils down to "lol my opponent is unfit, like Basement Biden". But negative attacks don't work as well when everyone already hates you too.

(FWIW, the damage to Oz's reputation came months ago, and Dems can write David McCormick a thank-you card for it)
dead serious on that last part -- don't think people who either didn't live in PA or weren't actively monitoring it daily can comprehend just how brutal the R primary was. Oz still hasn't recovered, and he's done a lot of damage to himself -- he might not recover at all.
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Aug 23
I remain convinced that @notkavi is the single best bait-poster on this corner of Twitter.
@notkavi What do you call a self-identifying Republican in California?

A party-line Democrat.
@notkavi what do you call a group of self-identifying Republicans in California?

A Democratic redistricting commission.
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Aug 22
It's quite clear that a lot of people are assuming in rhetoric that 2022 might be a 2014 redux, but the problem with this logic is that there are also three other election cycles that don't really show a massive late collapse by the party in power and only one that does.
Just a simple point: there has been degradation observed in most cycles late in the game, but that collapse is *usually* on the order of magnitude of maybe two points. That points to an R+2 year or so, where the Senate is clearly a tossup or even Dem-leaning.
If you're expecting a 2014 redux, that might very well happen! But I don't think there's too much evidence to suggest that this is the modal outcome any longer, and it sounds like heavy overfitting to one year in particular.
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Aug 20
When your campaign might actually be too broke to pay for actual good internals so you amplify fake ones from troll accounts instead...
christ almighty these people are stupid. There's a reason, by the way, that the RGA is not playing in Pennsylvania -- nobody in their right mind currently thinks this race is even remotely competitive at the moment.
The consensus is that Oz has a real shot still, even if he's doing everything in his power to blow what should have been an R-leaning race.

I'd say something about Mastriano, but nobody can even talk to him because they can't find which Witch Doctor he's currently consulting.
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