How many of the following competitive state attorney general races are won by the Republican candidate?
The GOP made gains in attorney general races on Election Night, though they did not come close to running the table. They won races in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma. They lost competitive races in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Rhode Island. The California race is too close to call, but even adding it to the GOP total doesn’t change how many points they would get. The GOP earns 4 points. Put it all together and you get 34 points, smack in the middle of our “so-so wave” category, and seven points shy of the threshold for a “decent wave.” You can quibble with our scale, which was more educated guess than science. Perhaps we should have adjusted the categories in a way that would have rated a score of 34 more highly. We could have weighted certain questions more heavily. Or perhaps we should have included more factors related to the House, where the GOP did so well. Still, we intended to set a high bar — not just declaring it a ma
