What We're Doing with This Campaign Finance Stuff

In partnership with Dartmouth Rootstrikers we've been keeping track of monthly polling averages for all of the races we've been watching, including the 34 Class 2 Senate elections plus the two special Senate elections, as well as all 36 gubernatorial elections this year. Rootstrikers, if you didn't know, is a group (largely students) devoted to reducing the influence of money in politics. In part this is an extension of our study over the winter, in which we found a negative correlation between the amount of money spent in a Senate race and the margin of victory in that race: the more money was spent, the more competitive the race was.