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		By: Antonio Delgado in NY-19: A plea for oversight with impeachment		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antonio Delgado in NY-19: A plea for oversight with impeachment]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[[&#8230;] States. My district is New York 19, which anthropologist Greg Laden sees as one of only 6-7 crucial swing seats that will determine control of the US House of Representatives. In NY-19, Antonio Delgado is the [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] States. My district is New York 19, which anthropologist Greg Laden sees as one of only 6-7 crucial swing seats that will determine control of the US House of Representatives. In NY-19, Antonio Delgado is the [&#8230;]</p>
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		By: Greg Laden		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/11/01/the-house-democrats-and-the-big-blue-wave/#comment-660912&quot;&gt;Richard Rosenberger&lt;/a&gt;.

At this time, I&#039;d give the dems just  under a 50% chance of winning the house with sure seats. In other words, those are not in a probabilistic model, they are simply seats they will win, as is the case with most seats the Dems and GOP will win.  

Of the remaining seats,  if they win only one or two, they get a majority.

Keep in mind that out of hundreds of reps, a certain number die, go to jail, or bail, so you need a majority of more than one to be meaningful.

Of the remaining tossup seats, they are all likely to go Republican, but it is unlikely they will all go Republican.  As it were. So this  post is predicting a Democratic majority but a small one.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/11/01/the-house-democrats-and-the-big-blue-wave/#comment-660912">Richard Rosenberger</a>.</p>
<p>At this time, I&#8217;d give the dems just  under a 50% chance of winning the house with sure seats. In other words, those are not in a probabilistic model, they are simply seats they will win, as is the case with most seats the Dems and GOP will win.  </p>
<p>Of the remaining seats,  if they win only one or two, they get a majority.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that out of hundreds of reps, a certain number die, go to jail, or bail, so you need a majority of more than one to be meaningful.</p>
<p>Of the remaining tossup seats, they are all likely to go Republican, but it is unlikely they will all go Republican.  As it were. So this  post is predicting a Democratic majority but a small one.</p>
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		By: Greg Laden		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/11/01/the-house-democrats-and-the-big-blue-wave/#comment-660892&quot;&gt;Richard Rosenberger&lt;/a&gt;.

Those are all sources that gave Clinton a massive likelihood of wining over Trump. I gave that race a 50-50.  

I&#039;m not using the same model here as I did for Clinton-Sanders or Clinton Trump, but I&#039;m also not making the same mistake the pollsters might be making now.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/11/01/the-house-democrats-and-the-big-blue-wave/#comment-660892">Richard Rosenberger</a>.</p>
<p>Those are all sources that gave Clinton a massive likelihood of wining over Trump. I gave that race a 50-50.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not using the same model here as I did for Clinton-Sanders or Clinton Trump, but I&#8217;m also not making the same mistake the pollsters might be making now.</p>
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		By: Richard Rosenberger		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Rosenberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I understand the above, Greg is saying that if the dems win all, but only, those seats listed above as having a probability above .5, then they remain a minority by one seat. There are 24 seats listed above with probabilities greats than .5; thus to win a majority the dems need to win at least 25 of those seats listed above.

Using the probabilities above, Greg seems to be predicting, by my calculations (a Monte Carlo type program based on 1,000,000 simulated elections), a probability of about 39.7% of winning the house.

We can note that this a substantially less that the probabilities others are giving in my previous comment.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I understand the above, Greg is saying that if the dems win all, but only, those seats listed above as having a probability above .5, then they remain a minority by one seat. There are 24 seats listed above with probabilities greats than .5; thus to win a majority the dems need to win at least 25 of those seats listed above.</p>
<p>Using the probabilities above, Greg seems to be predicting, by my calculations (a Monte Carlo type program based on 1,000,000 simulated elections), a probability of about 39.7% of winning the house.</p>
<p>We can note that this a substantially less that the probabilities others are giving in my previous comment.</p>
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		By: Richard Rosenberger		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/11/01/the-house-democrats-and-the-big-blue-wave/#comment-660892</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Rosenberger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As of this morning, fivethirtyeight.com gives the dems an 85.1% chance of taking control of the house.

The Economist has a model, https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/05/24/whos-ahead-in-the-mid-term-race , gives the dems a 69% chance of taking control of the house.

PredictWise, https://markets.predictwise.com/politics/2018-congress-house , gives the dems a 67% chance of taking the house.

These numbers are just for a majority, not the size of the majority.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As of this morning, fivethirtyeight.com gives the dems an 85.1% chance of taking control of the house.</p>
<p>The Economist has a model, <a href="https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/05/24/whos-ahead-in-the-mid-term-race" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/05/24/whos-ahead-in-the-mid-term-race</a> , gives the dems a 69% chance of taking control of the house.</p>
<p>PredictWise, <a href="https://markets.predictwise.com/politics/2018-congress-house" rel="nofollow ugc">https://markets.predictwise.com/politics/2018-congress-house</a> , gives the dems a 67% chance of taking the house.</p>
<p>These numbers are just for a majority, not the size of the majority.</p>
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		By: Greg Laden		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 23:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Addendum: 

Looks like New Mexico 02 is going to the Republican.  That is one of the 50-50 districts in the above chart.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Addendum: </p>
<p>Looks like New Mexico 02 is going to the Republican.  That is one of the 50-50 districts in the above chart.</p>
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