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Caleb Norwood vs Jason Gibbs

Likely DD +14.5 forecast · 3 months 27 days to election· 0 polls · 4 marketsMarkets 11h agoRating today
Live model · win probabilityupdated 11h ago · poliagg-v34
88% Norwood (D)
12% Gibbs (R)
R+15R+5TIEDD+5D+15
Predicted final margin D +14.5 · 80% CI R+1.6 → D+30.6 · 3 months 27 days to election
Momentum
insufficient data
Tipping-point P
3.9%
Decisive for chamber control
Market · D-side
D 93¢
Cross-platform consensus
News articles · 30d
no recent coverage
Caution · early warning
Editorial raters moved while polling has gone quiet

The last rating change here was 4d ago, but only 0 polls have landed in the last 60 days. When raters move and pollsters don't, the rating shift may be running ahead of the data. Watch for a late-cycle correction in either direction.

Where this race stands
Verified

Safe D · model 88% D

With limited polling, prediction markets imply Safe D (D win prob 94%, market-derived).

The poliagg-v34 ensemble forecasts D+14.5 with an 80% CI ranging from R+1.6 (10th pctile) to D+30.6 (90th pctile), giving D a 88% chance of winning.

Tipping-point probability: 3.9% of simulations see this race as decisive for chamber control.

CITATIONS · safe-d · low-tipping
Forecast · poliagg-v34
Predicted final margin
D +14.5
80% CI: R +1.6D +30.6 · win prob 88%
R+45R+23TIEDD+23D+45
Quality · inputs
Data quality · medium
Polls used0
Days to election118
Residual σ12.56pt
Generated7/7/2026
Compare with other models3 models
qgbt-v1GBT (qgbt)
D +5.5
80% CI R +14.1 → D +19.9
CV MAE 8.51
bayes-v1Bayes / Kalman
D +10.5
80% CI D +8.9 → D +12.1
CV MAE 1.24
consensusMarket-implied
D +14.6
no interval
market-implied

Prediction markets

Consensus · D 93¢2 platformsupdated 11h ago
Cross-platform price · history
50¢60¢70¢80¢90¢100¢370 DAYS · D YES PRICENOWJul 2Jul 7
Per-platform · current
PlatformD YESR YES7d ΔVolvs cons
Polymarket
Will the Democratic Party win the CA-27 House seat?
93¢7¢+0¢-0
Kalshi
CA-27 House winner?
94¢7¢+1¢$0K+0

Endorsements · 2 total

Source · Wikipedia · 1 candidate with no endorsements yet
Gibbs · 100%2
RJason Gibbs2 endorsers
Most notable · California Republican Party
Elected officials2
Federal 1State 0Local 0
DCaleb Norwood0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.

Money raised · own committees

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · last filing 2026-05-28
Jason GibbsOWN COMMITTEE
Receipts
$346.9K
Disburse
$154.9K
Cash on hand
$192.0K
Debts
$0
No industry data.
No contributor data.
Caleb NorwoodOWN COMMITTEE
Receipts
$350
Disburse
$0
Cash on hand
$350
Debts
$0
No industry data.
No contributor data.

Outside spending · independent expenditures

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · 24/48-hr IE reports
IE total
$1.1M
D side
$1.1M · 100%
R side
$4.6K · 0%
Top spender
For / against split
For Whitesides $1.1M
Against Whitesides $4.6K

Editorial ratings · 5 raters

Cook · Sabato · Inside Elections · 538 · DDHQ et al.
Safe D5
Cook Political Report
Safe D
Jun 17
The Economist
Safe D
May 5
Inside Elections
Safe D
Jun 24
Sabato's Crystal Ball
Safe D
Jun 8
Split Ticket
Safe D
Jun 24

Demographic crosstabs

age · education · race · gender
No demographic crosstabs published for this race yet. Most pollsters release only topline numbers; subgroup breakdowns (age, education, race, gender) appear here when a pollster publishes them.
Rating timeline
Jul 2, 2026Likely Dmodel
Jun 29, 2026Safe Dmodel
Jun 26, 2026Likely Dmodel
Jun 24, 2026Safe Dmodel
Jun 4, 2026Likely Dmodel
May 11, 2026Safe Dmodel
+ 2 earlier changes
Verification trail
Polls verified0 / 0deterministic
Polls flaggednone
Markets ingested2 platformsupdated 11h ago
FEC filingssyncedcommittee + IE · 2026-05-28
Endorsements17 totalWikipedia scrape
News coverage< 5 articlesGoogle News
Method · bounds + percentage totals + date-order checks