My policy when it comes to fundraising for legislative races has been pretty simple: With rare exceptions, I generally only include districts with a Partisan Voter Index (PVI) rating of less than 10 points. That is, so-called "swing districts" where either the Democratic or Republican candidate has only won by 10 points or less in recent years. This helps donors concentrate their donations on races where the Democratic nominee has a realistic chance of winning (or losing).

However,...

I don't raise money for challengers to Democratic incumbents very often, but I do make exceptions.

On this page I've included several Democratic candidates who I feel would be more inclined to promote mainstream Democratic values than the incumbent Dems they're challenging.

This doesn't mean that I think the incumbent is a terrible person, just that I feel strongly enough about their performance to date that I think someone else should take the wheel.

I want to...

When I set up my Special Election page last week, I was originally planning on only including swing districts as I normally do for legislative races. However, I've since changed my mind and am now including races in districts considered either solid red *or* solid blue according to traditional demographics & voting history.

I'm doing this for two reasons: First, because...

My normal policy prior to a state primary is to only list incumbent Democrats, and to only list non-incumbent candidates prior to the primary if a) I'm personally endorsing them (i.e,. Elissa Slotkin for MI-Senate) or b) if they're the only Democrat running anyway.

Exceptions to this are when they have no serious primary challenger, which admittedly can be subjective, but...