With three weeks to go in the campaign, fundraising is heating up. That’s even true for state legislatures, which will shape the political playing field for 10 years through redistricting. Today I will give four examples of how one donation can do the work of two.
Entries Tagged as 'Senate'
Two-fers
October 10th, 2020, 7:05pm by Sam Wang
Tags: 2020 Election · President · Redistricting · Senate
Slow (downticket) train coming
October 6th, 2020, 5:24pm by Sam Wang
In surveys conducted October 1-4, surveys show Biden up by a 10.0 +/- 0.6 percentage points (7 surveys, median +/- estimated SEM). If sustained, that’s a larger popular margin than Obama 2008 (7.3 points) or Clinton 1996 (8.5 points. The last larger win was Reagan 1984 (18.2 points). The Presidential Meta-Margin, on the other hand, […]
Tags: 2020 Election · House · President · Redistricting · Senate
Alaska, this year’s new swing state?
October 4th, 2020, 9:01am by Zachariah Sippy
Alaska is one of the most interesting states this November’s election. Not only is the state competitive in Presidential, Senate, and U.S. House elections, at the state level Democrats are fighting to retain control of the state House and prevent a Republican trifecta.
Tags: 2020 Election · House · Moneyball · Politics · President · Senate
Sam on The New Abnormal (again)
October 2nd, 2020, 8:57pm by Sam Wang
Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson had me back on their podcast, The New Abnormal! So pleased that they had me back. Molly is total fun, and so disrespectful. We talked elections of course, with a focus on Moneyball 2020. Many of you are focused on the Senate (which is swinging toward Democrats, thanks to Alaska […]
Tags: 2020 Election · House · Moneyball · Redistricting · Senate
An “effective altruism” approach to the election
September 28th, 2020, 3:21am by Sam Wang
September 29: Modified to take into account change in Florida ratings. If you’ve been giving to races we’ve identified as high voter power, you may have noticed that once in a while, we make small changes. The reason is that our best estimate of return on investment responds to events or additional analysis. We will […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Redistricting · Senate
The Senate polling desert
September 16th, 2020, 8:49am by Sam Wang
Plenty of polls for the Presidency – but there’s a polling desert in all-important Senate races. How does this affect your activism? There are two places where you can hedge your efforts, either by preventing gerrymandering for a decade or by influencing the Presidential race.
Tags: 2020 Election · Redistricting · Senate
Before the conventions, a slightly narrowing race
August 19th, 2020, 8:21am by Sam Wang
Can events like the roll-call vote above change public opinion? We’re about to find out – and trends over the last month will make a convention bounce easy to see, since Democrats have been trending slightly downward. Our federal poll trackers use different data streams, yet they seem to be moving together. This happened in […]
Tags: 2020 Election · House · Politics · President · Senate
Ranked-choice voting wins in court in Maine
August 14th, 2020, 6:11pm by Sam Wang
This afternoon, Judge Lance Walker issued his order in a court case that affects this November’s Senate election. This comes surprisingly fast, just one day after the evidentiary hearing. He finds that plaintiffs, four supporters of Senator Susan Collins, have suffered no constitutional injury from ranked-choice voting. His order gets pretty tart with the plaintiffs, […]
Sam on The New Abnormal with Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson
August 1st, 2020, 9:19am by Sam Wang
I had a great conversation with Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson on their podcast, The New Abnormal! We talked polls, elections, and Moneyball 2020. Oh, and Senator Tammy Duckworth was the other two-thirds of their show. I guess data analytics are the vegetable course? As a Southern friend of mine says, if there’s nothing green […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Politics · President · Redistricting · Senate
Blue Kentucky Girl
June 25th, 2020, 8:55pm by Sam Wang
(updated to reflect a narrow win by Amy McGrath over Charles Booker in the Democratic primary) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has made a successful career out of exploiting the rules of government. He is the single greatest architect of changes that move the U.S. away from democracy. But national Democrats and voting rights […]
Tags: 2020 Election · Moneyball · Senate
