Alaska has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+9, and spreadsheet watchers consider Young completely unassailable because of his 45 years in the seat. But over the last five elections, Young's lead has slipped from 68% in 2010, to 64% in 2012, 51% in 2014, and a bare 50.3% in 2016
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In November, there is an election where all 435 seats are contested. The Democrats need to gain 23 seats to become the majority party in the House of Representatives. Some of these races are winnable *except* they don't get enough money, and that is our focus right now
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To clarify further: in our upper chamber, the Senate, each state has two seats, for 6 year terms, 1/3 of which are up every 2 years. But the 435 seats in the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, are allocated by population + completely reelected every 2 years.
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Thanks for asking! This is an excellent question and I don't remember frequently enough that many of my followers are not so familiar with our weird system
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