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Type of site | Politics |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Logan Phillips |
| URL | www |
| Launched | 2020 |
| Current status | Online |
RacetotheWH is a political prediction website created by Logan Phillips in 2020. It has been notable for being very accurate compared to the final election results.[1][2]
Accuracy
[edit]2020
[edit]In 2020, RacetotheWH forecasted the Presidential and Senate contests, and missed only three states in both. In the Presidential forecast, it incorrectly called Ohio, Florida, and North Carolina for Joe Biden.
For the Senate, RacetotheWH incorrectly expected Theresa Greenfield, Sara Gideon, and Cal Cunningham to prevail in their Senate races.
2021
[edit]In 2021, RacetotheWH forecasted the New York City mayoral election, which used instant-runoff voting. It correctly predicted Eric Adams's victory over Kathryn Garcia.
2022
[edit]RacetotheWH was one of the most accurate forecasts of 2022,[3] and one of the only forecasts to successfully predict that the Democrats would hold the Senate. It called one race incorrectly, guessing that Adam Laxalt would defeat incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada.
Its prediction for the House was off by only 1.2 seats.
Seats incorrectly called: CA-13 CA-27 NC-13 NM-2 NV-1 NV-3 NY-17 OH-13 OR-5 PA-7 RI-2 VA-2 WA-3
It incorrectly called Arizona's gubernatorial election for Kari Lake and Wisconsin's for Tim Michels.
2024
[edit]In 2024, RacetotheWH forecasted the Presidential, Senate, House, and gubernatorial contests. It called four states in the presidential race, two states in the Senate elections, and 8 house races incorrectly.
In the Presidential forecast, it incorrectly called Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan for Kamala Harris with a tossup rating.
For the Senate, RacetotheWH incorrectly expected Bob Casey and Sherrod Brown to prevail in the Pennsylvania and Ohio Senate races respectively.
Its prediction for the House was off by 7.2 seats.
Seats incorrectly called: AK-AL CA-22 CA-45 CO-8 NE-2 PA-7 PA-8 PA-10
Every Gubernatorial race was called correctly.
Current forecasts
[edit]Race to the WH published predictions of competitive seats in elections that have not occurred yet. These predictions look at factors such as the strength of the incumbent (if the incumbent was running for reelection) and the other candidates, and the state's partisan lean (reflected in part by the state's Cook Partisan Voting Index rating). The predictions assigned ratings to each seat, indicating the predicted advantage that a party had in winning that seat. A key for the ratings used:
- "tossup": no advantage
- "tilt": advantage that is not quite as strong as "lean"
- "lean": slight advantage
- "likely": significant, but surmountable, advantage
- "solid": near-certain chance of victory
| Constituency | Incumbent | Ratings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | PVI[4] | Senator | Last election[a] |
WH Jan. 31, 2025[5] |
| Alabama | R+15 | Tommy Tuberville | 60.10% R | Solid R |
| Alaska | R+8 | Dan Sullivan | 53.90% R | Tilt R |
| Arkansas | R+16 | Tom Cotton | 66.53% R | Solid R |
| Colorado | D+4 | John Hickenlooper | 53.50% D | Solid D |
| Delaware | D+7 | Chris Coons | 59.44% D | Solid D |
| Florida (special) |
R+3 | Ashley Moody | Appointed (2025)[b] |
Lean R |
| Georgia | R+3 | Jon Ossoff | 50.62% D | Tilt D |
| Idaho | R+18 | Jim Risch | 62.62% R | Solid R |
| Illinois | D+7 | Dick Durbin | 54.93% D | Solid D |
| Iowa | R+6 | Joni Ernst | 51.74% R | Likely R |
| Kansas | R+10 | Roger Marshall | 53.22% R | Likely R |
| Kentucky | R+16 | Mitch McConnell | 57.76% R | Solid R |
| Louisiana | R+12 | Bill Cassidy | 59.32% R | Solid R |
| Maine | D+2 | Susan Collins | 50.98% R | Tilt D (flip) |
| Massachusetts | D+15 | Ed Markey | 66.15% D | Solid D |
| Michigan | R+1 | Gary Peters (retiring) |
49.90% D | Tossup |
| Minnesota | D+1 | Tina Smith | 48.74% D | Likely D |
| Mississippi | R+11 | Cindy Hyde-Smith | 54.11% R | Solid R |
| Montana | R+11 | Steve Daines | 55.01% R | Likely R |
| Nebraska | R+13 | Pete Ricketts | 62.58% R (2024 sp.)[c] |
Solid R |
| New Hampshire | D+1 | Jeanne Shaheen | 56.64% D | Likely D |
| New Jersey | D+6 | Cory Booker | 57.23% D | Solid D |
| New Mexico | D+3 | Ben Ray Luján | 51.73% D | Likely D |
| North Carolina | R+3 | Thom Tillis | 48.69% R | Tossup |
| Ohio (special) |
R+6 | Jon Husted | Appointed (2025)[d] |
Tossup |
| Oklahoma | R+20 | Markwayne Mullin | 61.77% R (2022 sp.)[e] |
Solid R |
| Oregon | D+6 | Jeff Merkley | 56.91% D | Solid D |
| Rhode Island | D+8 | Jack Reed | 66.48% D | Solid D |
| South Carolina | R+8 | Lindsey Graham | 54.44% R | Likely R |
| South Dakota | R+16 | Mike Rounds | 65.74% R | Solid R |
| Tennessee | R+14 | Bill Hagerty | 62.20% R | Solid R |
| Texas | R+5 | John Cornyn | 53.51% R | Likely R |
| Virginia | D+3 | Mark Warner | 55.99% D | Solid D |
| West Virginia | R+22 | Shelley Moore Capito | 70.28% R | Solid R |
| Wyoming | R+25 | Cynthia Lummis | 71.13% R | Solid R |
| Overall[f] | D/I - 47 R - 50 3 tossups | |||
Notes
[edit]- ^ The last elections for this group of senators were in 2020, except for those elected in a special election or who were appointed after the resignation or death of a sitting senator, as noted.
- ^ Republican Marco Rubio won with 57.7% of the vote in 2022, but resigned on January 20, 2025, after being confirmed to become Secretary of State.
- ^ Republican Ben Sasse won with 67.2% of the vote in 2020, but resigned on January 8, 2023, to be president of the University of Florida.
- ^ Republican JD Vance won with 53.0% of the vote in 2022, but resigned on January 10, 2025, to become Vice President of the United States.
- ^ Republican Jim Inhofe won with 62.9% of the vote in 2020, but resigned at the end of the 117th United States Congress.
- ^ Democratic total includes Independents who caucus with the Democrats.
References
[edit]- ^ "Performance in Past Elections". RacetotheWH. Logan Phillips. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
- ^ Nahmias, Omri (October 25, 2022). "A few minutes with... pollster Logan Phillips". Mishpacha. No. 933. Mishpacha. Archived from the original on February 4, 2025. Retrieved February 4, 2025.
Phillips contends that his prognostications are even more accurate than Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight, considered by many political wonks to be the industry's gold standard. He claims to have successfully predicted Joe Biden's narrow victories in Arizona and Georgia as early as June 2020.
- ^ Payne, Russell (October 5, 2024). ""She has an easier path to 270": Experts disagree on who has the "advantage" 30 days before election". Salon.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
Logan Phillips, the founder Race to the WH — one of the most accurate forecasters in 2022
- ^ "2022 Cook PVI℠: State Map and List". Cook Political Report. July 12, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2025.
- ^ "2026 Senate Forecast". RacetotheWH. Retrieved February 4, 2025.