An Election Sheet

I know some people keep an election sheet of all the federal elections on SSP. I created one back in May during  some of my more boring finance classes.(Accounting and Banking suck but I got an A in both while doing this so I can’t complain) It took me a lot of time to load all the information into it and get it to become the reference sheet I wanted for the Senate, House, and Presidential election. But in the end I think it came out pretty well.

However, I am aware that a lot of people don’t have the time to make one but would like an easy way to keep track of all the races and make informed predictions off of. This sheet I think is a simple and easy way to compare data between districts as well as polling fund raiding and demographic differences.

So I am offering my personal sheet to anyone who wants it.

Its simple to modify and easy to update, I use realclearpolitics.com for the polling numbers, and opensecrets.org for the fund raising numbers and use the most current polling available by an independent pollster.(with the exception of Zogby, and ARG who I think are awful pollsters) I use internal polls for some congressional races, as alot of times their are not any independent numbers, so take them with a grain of salt.

The Fundraising numbers are their current cash on hand totals.

The demographic numbers are taken from the wikipedia which are from the 2000 census.

The districts and states under each category are my opinions of the races which are quite more bullish then most people. However you can easily modify this by copy pasting it into the category you feel it belongs in.

It’s a pretty comprehensive list of the offense we will be playing this year and potential races that could become competitive.

I use Excel 2007, so people using earlier versions will have to change some of the colors. (I converted it to 2002 on my laptop and it turns green and orange to yellow for some reason, as well as the shades of red and blue I use “I use light: Blue/Red for challengers and Dark:Red/Blue for incumbents” are all converted to one shade of blue and red) I also use light blue and light red for Obama and McCain presidential race and dark red and dark blue for the 2004 race.

I haven’t converted it to 2002 since I uploaded the demographics so I have no idea how it will change the colors of each of the racial demographics. So change them how you see fit. (I use tan for white, Black for AA, yellow for Asian, brown for hispanic, purple for other red for native americans and green for median income)

Anywhere you see yellow on the excel sheet in 2002 is actually green so convert at your will.

However the changes are cosmetic and do not effect the numeric totals, so you can modify it on 2002 to reflect my color methodology or leave it or change it to any color you want,up to you.

So here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/12…

http://www.uploading.com/files…

rapidshare is easy to download from, just hit download for free and work your way through.

uploading.com is another easy site one of the two should work.

If anyone has any questions just leave it in the comments here.

Enjoy,

Conniver