Congressional Elections I

The Big Picture

• Incumbents Usually Win 
• Campaign Finance (See Anna's post)
• Coattails  -- not so much in 2016:

• Midterms Are Bad for the President's Party

The Senate

• The Class System
• Class I (up this year)
• Class II (2020)
• Class III (2022)
• 2018 Senate races

The House  (See Nicole's post)

• Gerrymandering: cracking, packing, merging, isolating
• Unintentional gerrymandering, sorting, and the Atlas of Gerrymandering
• GOP Advantage among whites
• The "bench" advantage shifts to the GOP