Sherrod Brown, Amy Klobuchar score high on electability; Elizabeth Warren, not so much

CNN Politics ^ | January 2, 2019 | Harry Enten

[2ndDivisionVet]

Now that the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination has officially started, one of the big issues that will likely come up is which candidate is the most electable.

One way to find that out is to see how the different possible candidates have done in the past. Of course, it's difficult to compare candidates when they run for different offices in different years.

There are, however, six potential 2020 Democratic contenders ran who ran for the US Senate in 2018.

The big takeaway from those results: Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sherrod Brown of Ohio are above-average candidates on the question of electability, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts -- who announced Monday that she's formed a committee to explore a 2020 presidential run -- is below average.

To come to that conclusion, I followed a pretty simple formula. I looked at how Brown, Klobuchar, Warren, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Texas' Beto O'Rourke and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont did in their 2018 Senate races. Then I examined how Democratic US House candidates in those same states performed. Thanks to Catalist, a data company that works with Democrats and others, we can calculate how unopposed House candidates would have done in races had they had opponents.

[Truthoverpower]

Let’s have a nice long battle of the midgets misfits and marxists
Like at least a year
Rip shreds battle. Fight. I’ll love it

[NorthstarMom]

I never read Jim Klobuchar’s daily column as a kid, but my mom explained to me that, sadly, there’s no way “Amy K” will lose an election in Minnesota because her dad was so well liked.

I can’t imagine that her electability would cross state lines.

[Steely Tom]

If Pocahontas runs, it’s going to be solid Pocahontas, LOL. PDJT won’t miss a chance to call her out.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 1/22/2019. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

Harry Enten writes for Clinton Non News:

Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sherrod Brown of Ohio are above-average candidates on the question of electability, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts -- who announced Monday that she's formed a committee to explore a 2020 presidential run -- is below average.

To come to that conclusion, I followed a pretty simple formula. I looked at how Brown, Klobuchar, Warren, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Texas' Beto O'Rourke and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont did in their 2018 Senate races. Then I examined how Democratic US House candidates in those same states performed. Thanks to Catalist, a data company that works with Democrats and others, we can calculate how unopposed House candidates would have done in races had they had opponents.