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« on: December 06, 2011, 04:08:06 PM »

Here's the basic blank map for the electoral vote for President.



But -- as a rule, 100 of those electoral votes relate to the US Senate, and 3 to the District of Columbia, which has no Congressional representation. I'm not going to maintain the divide of districts in Maine and Nebraska. So we now have the number of Representatives in each state.



On the generic ballot:

For a state with at-large representation, use the gap between individual candidates. I'm going with this one for the at large Congressional vote in Montana:

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no gap -- white

Democrat (red) or Republican (blue) advantage:

Color to a 20% shade for gaps under 3%, x0% for gaps up to 7%, and 90% for larger gaps.

With a state with multiple Congressional districts (Florida offers a recent example), apply this scheme to the gap in the generic ballot:

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2011, 04:34:57 PM »

oh no.

please no.

dear god, no.
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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2011, 08:43:20 AM »

So what does the gap mean? In Montana it could hardly be more evident: the Democratic challenger is not going to win the at-large House seat up in 2012. In Florida the gap suggests that districts that were less R than R+3 that Republicans now hold are likely to go D with those at R+3 on the bubble.

In essence, the Democrats are not going to win the at-large House seat in Montana, but they stand to make some gains in Florida. The average district is "0" nationwide. Expect a few seats to switch in Florida to the detriment of the Republican majority.
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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2011, 09:03:23 AM »

Pennsylvania, PPP

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A state in which Republicans made huge gains in the Congressional delegation is likely to see those reversed in 2012.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_PA_1129513.pdf

Ohio:

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http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_OH_1110.pdf

Ohio in 2012 so far looks like an unmitigated disaster for the GOP -- Presidency, Senate, and the House delegation. 



On the generic ballot:

For a state with at-large representation, use the gap between individual candidates. I'm going with this one for the at large Congressional vote as I did for Montana:

no gap -- white

Democrat (red) or Republican (blue) advantage:

Color to a 20% shade for gaps under 3%, x0% for gaps up to 7%, and 90% for larger gaps.

With a state with multiple Congressional districts (as in Pennsylvania or Ohio), apply this scheme to the gap in the generic ballot.







   
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2011, 10:49:04 AM »

So what do we have here?

1. The current make-up of Congress is 242-192. That's a 50-seat gap in Congress, one that can be reversed with a 26-seat shift from R to D.

2. Three states with 61 Representatives -- three arguable swing states in 50-50 Presidential elections -- show trouble for Congressional Republicans. Republicans hold a 19-6 majority in the  Florida delegation, a 13-5 majority in the Ohio delegation, and a 12-7 majority in the Pennsylvania delegation.

The congressional generic ballot could at worst for the Republicans cause a reversal of the delegations of those states... and that extreme, those three states alone could flip the House in 2012. (26 seats would do it). Republicans will hold ultra-safe seats in all three seats, but I can imagine Democrats winning seats up to R+3 in Florida, R+5 in Ohio, and R+2.5 on average in Pennsylvania.

3. These states are likely to get much attention from President Obama in 2012, and I can easily see him running against Congress -- and exploiting the unpopularity of current Governors.  But as significantly, any Republican nominee is going to have few friends who aren't political poison in those states.

4. It's hard to see any cultural trend likely to give the Republicans an advantage in 2012. The Religious Right is fading, and the Tea Party has peaked. The GOP overplayed its hand in 2010 and has left dozens of vulnerable Republicans for 2012.

5. Watch for more states with large Congressional delegations -- Obama states of 2008  (CO, IN, MI, VA, WI), those that he lost by a small margin (GA, MO) with current majority-R or that he won decisively but the delegation is split (MN).  Even Texas could be interesting.   
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2011, 10:56:35 AM »

may the lord have mercy on our souls
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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2011, 10:53:45 PM »

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Republicans will find maintaining a 4-3 majority in the Colorado delegation very difficult, I'd say.


On the generic ballot:

For a state with at-large representation, use the gap between individual candidates. I'm going with this one for the at large Congressional vote as I did for Montana:

no gap -- white

Democrat (red) or Republican (blue) advantage:

Color to a 20% shade for gaps under 3%, x0% for gaps up to 7%, and 90% for larger gaps.

With a state with multiple Congressional districts (as in Pennsylvania or Ohio), apply this scheme to the gap in the generic ballot.


   
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« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2011, 06:50:27 PM »

Republicans cannot hold the House majority nationwide with this:

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« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2011, 09:24:41 PM »

Not quote a poll of the generic US House ballot in Virginia

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but it does suggest that House Republicans will have difficulty holding onto a majority in the Virginia delegation to the US House of Representatives. Like John Boehner and Paul Ryan he looks like a brittle target for nationwide House campaigns.

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« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2011, 10:10:39 PM »

It would take a complete sweep of the marginals or somehow regaining VA-09 inspite of Obama in coal country, to flip the delegation.


Wolf, Goodlate, Cantor, Forbes, Whitman and Griffith will be fine. Hurt and Rigell will probably be fine as well.

These generic numbers are not the absolutes you are selling them as. Stop selling us this bill of goods.
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« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2012, 07:18:40 PM »

It would take a complete sweep of the marginals or somehow regaining VA-09 inspite of Obama in coal country, to flip the delegation.


Wolf, Goodlate, Cantor, Forbes, Whitman and Griffith will be fine. Hurt and Rigell will probably be fine as well.

These generic numbers are not the absolutes you are selling them as. Stop selling us this bill of goods.

Of course it is possible for a state legislature to gerrymander districts so that three districts are D+20 or more and  the rest range from R+10 to R+4 so that only three districts of 12 or so are possible wins for a Democrat except in a Republican disaster. 

But two seats flipping in one state, thee in another, and enough others here and there can be the difference between Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner as Speaker of the House.

Individual merit also matters; pols who have sex or corruption scandals, assert themselves as extremists in moderate districts, and misuse power are vulnerable in reverse-wave elections. 
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« Reply #11 on: February 18, 2012, 09:52:07 PM »

PPP, Michigan

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Imaginable surrogate for how people would vote in Congressional races. Not technically usable here.   


On the generic ballot:

For a state with at-large representation, use the gap between individual candidates. I'm going with this one for the at large Congressional vote as I did for Montana:

no gap -- white

Democrat (red) or Republican (blue) advantage:

Color to a 20% shade for gaps under 3%, x0% for gaps up to 7%, and 90% for larger gaps.

With a state with multiple Congressional districts (as in Pennsylvania or Ohio), apply this scheme to the gap in the generic ballot.


   

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« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2012, 09:30:05 AM »

CALIFORNIA

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It looks as if many of the Republicans who surfed their way into Congress on the big Republican Wave of 2010 will be wiped out in the big Democratic wave of 2012. 

 
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_312MBS.pdf

On the generic ballot:

For a state with at-large representation, use the gap between individual candidates. I'm going with this one for the at large Congressional vote as I did for Montana:

no gap -- white

Democrat (red) or Republican (blue) advantage:

Color to a 20% shade for gaps under 3%, x0% for gaps up to 7%, and 90% for larger gaps.

With a state with multiple Congressional districts (as in Pennsylvania or Ohio), apply this scheme to the gap in the generic ballot.


   

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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2012, 11:13:54 PM »

Here's one that I missed: at-large, South Dakota

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On the generic ballot:

For a state with at-large representation, use the gap between individual candidates. I'm going with this one for the at large Congressional vote as I did for Montana:

no gap -- white

Democrat (red) or Republican (blue) advantage:

Color to a 20% shade for gaps under 3%, x0% for gaps up to 7%, and 90% for larger gaps.

With a state with multiple Congressional districts (as in Pennsylvania or Ohio), apply this scheme to the gap in the generic ballot.


   


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