In October, I listed 87 Democrats that had garnered an endorsement from one or more progressive organizations (including 17 endorsed by DailyKos).
Below is a table showing how those 87 races turned out (with 3 races not yet concluded, but leaning D – here I’ve assumed the Democrat will win). Democrats won 54 of the 87 seats (and lost 33):
Safe D: 20 of 20 seats
Likely D: 4 of 4
Lean D: 10 of 10
Tossup: 18 of 22
Lean R: 2 of 9
Likely R: 0 of 6
Safe R: 0 of 16
In these 87 races, Democrats defeated 14 Republican incumbents, with an average Progressive Punch score of 9.29, and lost 1 Democratic incumbent, Betty Sutton (OH-16) with a Progressive Punch score of 91.01.
If you’d like to play with this table further, you can download a copy of my spreadsheet from Google Docs here.
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Incumbents in bold type
Incumbents have Progressive Punch scores for 2011-12 (100=Votes Progressive) and DW-Nominate scores (-1=progressive, +1=conservative), where the numbers are available.
DK = DailyKos “Speaker Pelosi Project” (Orange-to-Blue Program) working for 17 Democrats
PCCC = Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) endorsements of 7 Democrats
Cr = Credo SuperPac working against 11 Republican Tea Partiers
CAF = Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) working against 9 conservative Republicans
PDA = Progressive Democrats of America endorsements of 11 Democrats
BA = Blue America endorsements of 16 Democrats: “tough races” “solid progressives”
DfA = Democracy for America endorsements of 21 Democrats
LCV = League of Conservation Voters Action PAC endorsements of 29 Democrats
FM = Feminist Majority endorsements of 23 Democratic women
HRC = Human Rights Campaign endorsements of 6 Democrats
PA = Progressive Caucus’s Progressive Action PAC endorsements of 26 Democrats
CLW = Council for a Livable World (CLW) endorsements of 36 Democrats
Alt = Alternet: “10 Under-the-Radar Congressional Races to Watch”
Race ratings from DailyKos as of November 6, 2012.
DW-Nominate consevative/progressive rating: David Jarmin, DailyKos
Progressive Punch rating in 2011-12 (as of 10/17/12)
The first edition of this table from September 25, can be found here.