Daily Data Dump - October 26th, 2010

Just a heads up, I might be posting less later in the week and into the weekend. So might skip these at some point. Are Democrats Overachieving in the Senate? Is Nate Silver is having a downward pressure on other political coverage? I don't even bother checking the other analytical stuff in The New York Times; they're just going to basically do souped-up trend stories with cherry-picked quotes from "experts" attempting a bit of man-bites-dog to product-differentiate. The basic outlines of what's going to happen at the mid-terms is known, as well as the uncertainty. Beyond that most people are guessing and spinning. On the specific issue at hand, I'm not too versed in politics but I had assumed that the Senate was a less volatile institution in election-to-election change in party proportions because only 1/3 of it was up for election in a given year, vs. 100% of the ...