Talk:2014 United States Senate elections
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Harkin
One IP continues to try to claim Harkin is running with a source detailing his fundraising, only to see Harkin announce his retirement the next day. Let this be a lesson to everyone about WP:CRYSTAL and WP:V. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:13, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Some state-specific articles should be deleted
Some state-specific articles should be deleted as they serve no purpose other than being vehicles for idle speculation. The articles on Oklahoma, Wyoming, Kansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Alabama, and Illinois exist in blatant violation of WP:NOTCRYSTALBALL and likely will until at least the end of this year, if not into next year.
--184.6.222.14 (talk) 22:56, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
Composition Charts Majority Seat
The current Vice President is a Democrat, therefore Democrats only need 50 seats to maintain a majority whereas Republicans need 51. I'm sure everyone is aware of this.
However, the "Composition" charts in the article shift the majority box to the *Republican* side. The way it is currently shown, majority would be achieved by only 50 seats from the Republican's side and 51 from the Democrat's.
I give an example below, the first being the current (incorrect) version, and the latter being the corrected version.
- Senate composition before the elections (INCORRECT MAJORITY)
I1 | I2 | D1 | D2 | D3 | D4 | D5 | D6 | D7 | D8 |
D18 | D17 | D16 | D15 | D14 | D13 | D12 | D11 | D10 | D9 |
D19 | D20 | D21 | D22 | D23 | D24 | D25 | D26 | D27 | D28 |
D38 | D37 | D36 | D35 | D34 | D33 | D32 | D31 | D30 | D29 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D39 | D40 | D41 | D42 | D43 | D44 | D45 | D46 | D47 | D48 |
Majority → | D49 | ||||||||
R41 | R42 | R43 | R44 | R45 | D53 | D52 | D51 | D50 | |
R40 | R39 | R38 | R37 | R36 | R35 | R34 | R33 | R32 | R31 |
R21 | R22 | R23 | R24 | R25 | R26 | R27 | R28 | R29 | R30 |
R20 | R19 | R18 | R17 | R16 | R15 | R14 | R13 | R12 | R11 |
R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 |
- Senate composition before the elections CORRECTED
I1 | I2 | D1 | D2 | D3 | D4 | D5 | D6 | D7 | D8 |
D18 | D17 | D16 | D15 | D14 | D13 | D12 | D11 | D10 | D9 |
D19 | D20 | D21 | D22 | D23 | D24 | D25 | D26 | D27 | D28 |
D38 | D37 | D36 | D35 | D34 | D33 | D32 | D31 | D30 | D29 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D39 | D40 | D41 | D42 | D43 | D44 | D45 | D46 | D47 | D48 |
Majority → | |||||||||
R41 | R42 | R43 | R44 | R45 | D53 | D52 | D51 | D50 | D49 |
R40 | R39 | R38 | R37 | R36 | R35 | R34 | R33 | R32 | R31 |
R21 | R22 | R23 | R24 | R25 | R26 | R27 | R28 | R29 | R30 |
R20 | R19 | R18 | R17 | R16 | R15 | R14 | R13 | R12 | R11 |
R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 |
I will make the changes to the main article in a few days, unless someone refutes my claims...
- Sounds fair to me. -Rrius (talk) 04:02, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Roll Call Predictions
Can anyone provide an actual link to Roll Call's race ratings? There is just a generic link to a section of their website which is of no use. I know Roll Call does produce their own ratings, but they also post ratings from Rothenberg since he is a contributor. I believe this is leading to confusion and people making erroneous changes to the Roll Call predictions. The chart says April 30th was the last update, but I cannot find anything on Roll Call from that date with ratings. If we can't find an actual source to verify those ratings I will be removing them until one is found. Rxguy (talk) 20:18, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Massachusetts color change
Democrat Ed Markey won the special US Senate election on June 25, and the map still goes Massachusetts as black (for undetermined incumbent). Needs to be changed to blue as we now know a Democrat will be defending this seat in 2014. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peach freak (talk • contribs) 04:17, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Nate Silver/FiveThirtyEight
As Nate left FiveThirtyEight, and his predictions are unlikely to be updated, I would suggest getting rid of his predictions. Otherwise as the rest of the predictions are updated we're going to have FiveThirtyEight stuck on July 15, 2013.
ProfessorPlum27 (talk) 11:58, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
- Check again, Nate Silver did not leave FiveThirtyEight. FiveThirtyEight left the NY Times and is moving to ESPN next month where Silver will still be doing political posts along with some sports and other topics. Rxguy (talk) 15:30, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
- Here is just one article about it: Silver makes move to ESPN Rxguy (talk) 15:40, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
Kentucky and Tennessee
are the wrong colors on the map. They are Republican seats.--Metallurgist (talk) 20:02, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
Map: South Carolina
There is a diagonal bar across South Carolina, in the map at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Competitive_2014_Senate_seats.png (Perhaps this was left over from prior to the appointment of Tim Scott.) Tripodics (talk) 12:29, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Citations must back up edit
Candidate listings must be backed up by bona fied journalistic citations or official candidate listings from each state. Citations which require a subscription to read are not allowed. Steelbeard1 (talk) 20:00, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Should the Daily Kos predictions be included?
Seems like there may be an edit war brewing. Just thought I'd get the conversation going before this got any more contentious. 50.136.74.20 (talk) 17:43, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
I'd say no. I'm a big fan of the site and I don't think that they "skew information or misrepresent facts," but they're still a liberal site and I think we should probably keep predictions to non-partisan and non-ideological sources. Chris (talk) 20:11, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
- Well, the question is, how do they formulate their rankings? What information are they using? – Muboshgu (talk) 20:59, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
- Despite apparently joining in an edit war, I don't actually care much whether they stay or go. I just don't want it removed based on one person's opinion. So if anyone can answer Muboshgu's question, it would be very helpful. Ratemonth (talk) 02:45, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- I guess one of the main concerns is that those predictions really aren't the Daily Kos' predictions, as much as they are the opinions of a blogger who uses Daily Kos as a forum. This is unlike say Real Clear Politics, which has a paid staff that crunches the numbers. Whichever predictions they make, RCP "owns". Daily Kos on the other hand, could just as easily have another blogger come along and post his/her own predictions which could be completely contradictory to the ones displayed in this article. Maybe a good rule of thumb is to only use sources that endorse the predictions they make, rather than just being a forum.50.136.74.20 (talk) 13:58, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
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