American politics 2023: Democrats overperform the 2020 election results baseline in House special elections?
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Here are my calculations, D overperformance of 2.6%

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@itsTomekK resolve YES

see rows 12, 33, and 40

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@nikki thanks@!

what numebrs do we compare?

What about DE HD37 district, without results yet

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@itsTomekK those are state legislative results, not US house results

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you need to find the 20-23 swing for VA-04, RI-01, and UT-02

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D+13.3, D+0.9, R+6.5 is a D overperformance

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resolve YES, no more House specials this year
VA-04 is D+13.3, RI-01 is D+0.9, UT-02 is about R+7 for an overall D overperformance
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11ZlsgliiaOa92s9PkoSW244QbfxWZbw8cIW4TF_TTKU