New: There are 32 House races the AP hasn't called yet, but they aren't all created equal. My best (reported) guess about which way they're breaking, and whether Dems have any shot at the majority. politico.com/news/2022/11/1…
Breaking it down, 2 of them are in D-vs.-D Calif. races, 2 GOP candidates have conceded, Dems are favored in 2 RCV tabulations. Then there are a dozen-plus other races where there's a clear favorite. politico.com/news/2022/11/1…
GOP currently leads in 6, Dems lead in 5. GOP needs to win 3, Dems need to win 9.
One other note, if any of the races we’ve tentatively assigned to a party, it would shift those numbers. So it Dems beat Mike Garcia in #CA27, they only need 8 of this 11, and vice versa for Rs in D-designated seats.
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I don't usually do threads, but since we're talking about what Election Night will look like: We'll still have exit polls and AP Votecast, so news organizations will be able to project winners in uncompetitive states, even without actual votes tallied.
This could actually be an important bulwark against some of the misleading results about which I'm seeing some warnings here. Even with the huge partisan split between in-person E-Day votes and mail/early votes, the media will be putting the decisive states in the right columns.
Meaning: Is it theoretically possible that Trump could be leading a solid-blue state that doesn't count any mail ballots until after Election Day? Sure. But it will be called for Biden anyway, because we'll have that survey data.