📣📣 A few days ago I posted my analysis of whether the GOP's COVID Death Cult 💀 is likely to be the decisive factor in any *statewide* races. My conclusion was that #NVSenate is the most likely candidate for this (& potentially #AZGov, #AZAG & the upcoming #GASenate Runoff). 1/
I estimate that *if* CCM ends up winning the #NVSenate race by less than ~2,400 votes, there's a very strong argument to be made that the GOP COVID Death Cult is what made the difference.
The same applies if Dems win #AZGov or #AZAG by less than ~4,100 votes. 2/
In the case of #GASenate, if Raphael Warnock ends up winning the upcoming runoff election by less than ~5,700 votes, I would also put it in this category.
TODAY, as promised, I'm looking at this question for HOUSE races, which are a lot trickier to do due to district borders. 3/
House state of play (h/t @Taniel & @Fritschner; I just gussied up the table a bit, including adding the current vote margins & % reported via the NY Times).
If Dems hold all seats they're currently leading in *and* flip 5 of the 10 currently w/GOP leading, they get to 218.
Whoops...the margin cell for MD-06 should be orange instead of blue...but it's my understanding that that one is expected to flip blue soon anyway...
IMPORTANT: Notice that the California races (which make up 10 of the 17 listed) have only reported an average of 55% of their votes so far!
I have no clue where the other ~45% are located but all 10 of them could *easily* change.
📣 Now that it's no longer theoretical, several people have asked the "Elephant in the Room" question: Did the higher GOP COVID death rate, due to their dramatically higher refusal to wear masks, socially distance or get vaccinated, impact any races? 1/ acasignups.net/22/09/17/eleph…
In September I posted my final update to an occasional analysis of the COVID data vs. 2020 Trump/Biden voting data. I don't have enough data to drill down to the Congressional District level, but I came up with what I think are reasonable *statewide* estimates of the gap. 2/
There's a handful of states where it *might* have made the difference in some statewide races. My estimates for *how many more Trump voters have died of COVID than Biden voters* in those are: 3/
Here's where Arizona stands at the moment, via @nytimes: Kelly up by ~90K, Hobbs up by ~11.7K, Fontes up by ~84.5K, Mayes up by ~4K.
Only 2/3 of the vote in for each, however; I have no idea how the remainder is expected to break.
Here's where Nevada stands at the moment, via @nytimes: Sisolak *down* by ~40K, Cortez Masto *down* by ~22.6K, Aguilar *down* by ~9.3K, Ford *up* by ~35K.
...all with ~3/4 of the vote in. Again, no idea how the remainder breaks.
OK, folks, I'm still bleary-eyed: I know Michigan Dems flipped both the state House and Senate, and that Minnesota DFL flipped the state Senate. What other noteworthy *state legislative* news is there so far?
For what it's worth, here's how much I raised for the Dems running in the 7 closest state Senate races, and how they fared.
Also FWIW, here's how much I raised for the Dems running in the 29 closest state House races, and how most of them fared (I don't know the results of 8 of them yet, though I'm assuming they all lost except possibly Reggie Miller?)
Good morning! Sounds like Dems did about as well overall as they reasonably could’ve under the circumstances.
As a native Michigander I’m thrilled at the news that it sounds like we had a great night, apparently including flipping both the state Senate and House?
Nationally, it sounds like in the Senate we gained Fetterman but *may* have lost Cortez Masto and/or Kelly, w/Georgia possibly going to another runoff?