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Nancy Pelosi has not been elected to the post of House minority leader for the next Congress yet. Shouldn't this be TBA until the actual election has taken place?

user:mnw2000 11:46, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Special elections

Let's be clear. The elections to determine the successors of Mike Pompeo, Xavier Becerra, and possibly Tom Price and Ryan Zinke, will be held in 2017, not 2018. Those should be mentioned only on United States elections, 2017, not this page. – Muboshgu (talk) 04:27, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There is no page for United States elections for 2017. These special election races should stay as they have for other off-year races. These races also should be included as a sub-section in the Wikipedia page for the 115th congress. Macraesam17 (talk) 08:56, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cook PVIs

The Cook PVIs need to be updated to 2016 for all districts as many experienced a dramatic swing from 2014 to 2016. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 22:49, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We do need to update them, but I don't think that Cook has released them yet. Orser67 (talk) 16:17, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

They have now, and they have been updated Macraesam17 (talk) 08:57, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Candidates

I have seen some candidates filled out for this article, are we putting anyone who files or what? What criteria are used to determine whether we mention them? Alex the Nerd (talk) 14:15, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think we've ever reached a consensus on inclusion, but the pattern seems to be anyone whose entrance into the race is covered by a reliable source, which seems reasonable to me. Orser67 (talk) 20:34, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If there is no sourcing, the name is removed. If sourcing is subsequently found, the name can be added back.Theoallen1 (talk) 18:39, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorting

What methods are we using to sort the candidates? Is it (1) incumbents, (2) Republicans in alphabetical order, (3) Democrats in alphabetical order, and (4) others in alphabetical order? There is no consensus on this order for candidates being listed. I would recommend sorting strictly based on alphabetical order. Theoallen1 (talk) 20:52, 9 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My proposal is: incumbent at the top (if running), followed by the other candidates of the incumbent's party in alphabetical order (by last name), followed by the other major party's candidates in alphabetical order, followed by major third party/independent candidates in alphabetical order. Many, though not all, of the entries seem to follow this order. Orser67 (talk) 20:34, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that we should sort them State by state. With each race discussed upon in numerical order. (Eg: Oregon 1st and candidates, followed by Oregon 2nd and candidates.) Macraesam17 (talk) 08:59, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rothenberg Political Report

The Rothenberg Political Report is now "Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales. I've updated this on the 2018 Gubernatorial Elections page, but not here (yet?). This change should probably be reflected anywhere these ratings are used. Jsknoll (talk) 14:14, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Prediction Styling

Might it not be useful on this (and similar) pages to use additional styling to indicate when a seat is expected to flip according to one of the predictions?

My suggestion would be to use italics or bold for predicted party swaps? Jsknoll (talk) 14:14, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
So it might look like one of the two rows in the table below? Interesting idea. I would say the bold looks better than the italic. Orser67 (talk) 07:33, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Florida 27 D+5 (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen) (R) 1989 54.9% R Leans D Leans D Leans D
Florida 27 D+5 (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen) (R) 1989 54.9% R Leans D Leans D Leans D

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Where are the references?

Hi, I often use the page to see who has entered races, but I can't do this without the reference section.

Where has it gone? I'm sure i'm just being dumb and/or blind.

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