Down-ticket

He should form a PAC to dole out dollars to down-ticket Republicans.

Second, each percentage point gain for Obama among whites translated into a 1.16 point gain for the down-ticket Democrats (all of whom except for the challengers to Jeff Sessions [R-Ala.] and Thad Cochran [R-Miss.] are white).

When one uses linear regression to test the relationship between white vote shares of down-ticket candidates for U.S. Senate and governor and the Obama performance among whites, while controlling for incumbency in the contest, the following patterns emerge.