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September 16, 2014 12:30 PM UTC

Election Models Show Huge Momentum for Udall

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  • by: Colorado Pols
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Sen. Mark Udall appears to be pulling away from Rep. Cory Gardner (as well as Lincoln and…Jefferson?)

Big news this morning from our friends at the Washington Post blog "The Fix"

Democrats are now (very slightly) favored to hold the Senate majority on Nov. 4, according to Election Lab, the Post's statistical model of the 2014 midterm elections.

Election Lab puts Democrats' chances of retaining their majority at 51 percent —  a huge change from even a few months ago when the model predicted that Republicans had a better than 80 percent chance of winning the six seats they need to take control. (Worth noting: When the model showed Republicans as overwhelming favorites, our model builders — led by George Washington University's John Sides — warned that the model could and would change as more actual polling — as opposed to historical projections — played a larger and larger role in the calculations. And, in Republicans' defense, no one I talked to ever thought they had an 80 percent chance of winning the majority.)

So, what exactly has changed to move the Election Lab projection? Three big things:

* Colorado: On August 27 — the last time I wrote a big piece on the model — Election Lab said Sen. Mark Udall (D) had a 64 percent chance of winning. Today he has a 94 percent chance…[Pols emphasis]

…Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight model now has Republican chances of winning the Senate at 55 percent, down from 64 percent 12 days ago. "The two states with the largest shifts have been Colorado and North Carolina — in both cases, the movement has been in Democrats’ direction," writes Silver. "That accounts for most of the difference in the forecast."

The extent to which Sen. Mark Udall appears to be pulling away from Republican Rep. Cory Gardner is a bit surprising, though we've been saying for weeks that Udall has all the momentum in this race; last week we increased Udall's odds of winning to 65% in our latest election "model" (The Big Line) . This new prediction about the Colorado Senate race is also not an outlier compared to recent news reports; late last week national media outlets were noting that Udall's campaign was starting to pull away from Gardner. As we wrote back in August, Gardner's campaign has been throwing all sorts of different messages at the wall in hopes of getting something to stick — a lack of direction that usually indicates a campaign that is neither comfortable nor confident in its approach this late in the game.

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15 thoughts on “Election Models Show Huge Momentum for Udall”

        1. I guess you can't enjoy the fact that you're ahead and work to keep it that way at the same time.  Its understandable though; you probably haven't been in that situation before.

        2. If you honestly believe that your anxious, sweaty, petty bits are going to propel anyone anywhere, any distance, in any direction, but expecially Gardner to the Senate, you're a much, much dumber SOB than I ever imagined . . .

          . . . and, now I'm wondering how that could even be possible?

  3. There may be other shifts in other states but I think this is what so many of us believed would happen as we approach election day here in Colorado.  There are no longer any polls left on the Borg's beloved RCP showing Gardner with any lead. Much ballyhooed by the Borg 538 saying, as of this snapshot in time, that the Republicans' chance of a Senate takeover are reduced to toss up territory must smart. If all of these indicators were moving the other way I'm sure we'd be hearing more from the Borg today. 

    I wonder how much of this has to do with the same problem the GOTP has had in the recent past? The fact that every stupid thing any pol says winds up going viral immediately and they just can't get their crazies to stop saying insane things, causing them to lose in places where they could have won? 

    Seems like an eruption every few days now. Even though most Senate candidates are smarter than to say such things it might just be turning off more non-partisan voters to the party in general, especially since GOTP upper ballot candidates won't come out and disavow their crazies lower down the ballot. And Dems have plenty of money to spread the word. I'm sure that's not the whole explanation but maybe part of it. Toxic elements are infecting the entire Borg?

      1. Look at the trendlines, and at the sheer number of polls confirming Udall's slow but steady, undeniable rise.

        True, it's never over until it is. But barring a last-minute miracle, Gardner's future grows dimmer by the day.

      2. Hey wingnut moderatus, these numbers put a smile on my face, about yours? 🙂

         

        The NY Times gives Udall a 82% chance at beating Gardner. 538 (Nate Silver) gives Udall a 69% chance at beating Gardner. Huffington Post gives Udall a 57% chance at beating Gardner and the Washington Post gives Udall a 93% chance at beating Gardner.

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