Several changes today to our Congressional ratings. Unlike legislative races where we rate races based on feel and on the ground intelligence, we are rating congressional races based on public polling which is available in most races. Thus we’re instituting a clear criteria beginning today. If a race is within four points either way in public polling averages, it’s rated a “toss-up”. Four to eight points rates it a “lean” and eight to twelve rates it “likely.” Above twelve points is considered “safe”. Our polling averages are based on a combination of numbers averaged by Talking Points Memo Poll Tracker iOS app, Real Clear Politics and other media sources. Furthermore, we’ll indicate which was a “toss-up” appears to be headed. These ratings will be updated daily until Monday.
Full ratings after the jump.
Safe Democratic
FL-5 (Brown)
FL- 14 (Castor )
FL- 20 (Hastings)
FL-21 (Deutch)
FL-23 (Wasserman-Schultz)
FL-24 (Wilson)
Likely Democratic
FL-9 (Open)
Leans Democratic
FL-22 (Open)
FL-26 (Rivera)
FL- Senate (Nelson)
Toss Up
FL-2 (Southerland) PURE TOSS UP
FL-18 (West) REPUBLICAN FAVORED
Leans Republican
FL-10 (Webster)
Likely Republican
FL- 6 (Open)
FL-13 (Young)
FL-16 (Buchanan)
Safe Republican
FL-1 (Miller)
FL-3 (Stearns*)
FL-4 (Crenshaw)
FL-7 (Mica)
FL- 8 (Posey)
FL-11 (Nugent)
FL-12 ( Bilirakis)
FL-15 (Ross)
FL-17 (Rooney)
FL-19 (Open)
FL-25 (Diaz-Balart)
FL 27 (Ros-Lehtinen)
* Stearns lost the GOP primary to Ted Yoho
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