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I'm confused as to why the Michigan Senate seat doesn't appear to be part of your analysis.

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Jul 25·edited Jul 25Author

Two reasons: Elissa Slotkin (D) currently leads Mike Rogers (R) by a median of 6 points, and Michigan has a relatively large population. Mathematically, moving a vote does not affect the fact that this appears to be a likely Democratic win, and not on a knife edge.

For a full list of voter power metrics, see https://election.princeton.edu/the-race-for-congress/

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Huh. Weird that Cook still has it labeled as a "toss up."

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Jul 25·edited Jul 25Author

They are smart people but they are a lagging indicator. They will catch up.

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Thank you for all your great work!

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Two links for further reading: 1) A model of state power in the Electoral College. Scale these results by votes/states to compare to Moneyball: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/spp-2021-0029/html 2) A great estimate of net partisan gerrymandering in the 2021-22 redistricting cycle: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2217322120

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Thanks for again bringing the math to bear!

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I would love to be able to donate through Apple because I want to give an anonymized email (so that Actblue doesn't spam me, like they tend to do.) How come is that not enabled?

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