Democrats go down at least one governor on net in 2022
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resolved Dec 5
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#MattYglesias2022 One of Matt Yglesias' predictions for 2022: https://www.slowboring.com/p/predictions-are-hard #Politics #Democrats #2022
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bought Ṁ1,000 of NO

@Manifold will you resolve this early, like the Macron market from this group?

predicted NO

This should resolve NO. ABC has called 22 seats for Democrats, and that's the number of seats they hold now.

bought Ṁ1,000 of NO

Democrats have 2 flips now, and Republicans only have a chance of flipping Oregon and Nevada, which is even.

predicted YES

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predicted YES

I think I'm missing 3 races, but I don't know which 3

bought Ṁ150 of NO

Democrats currently hold 22 governorships. According to 538, the 22nd most blue-leaning governorship is Wisconsin, which is 49% to elect a Democrat.

bought Ṁ30 of NO

In fact, it might be even better than this: Of the 5 races between 30%-70%, Democrats just have to win two for this to resolve NO, and Oregon is also in the vicinity of 50%. Not sure how correlated I should expect these to be.