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Pols And Polls Say The Same Thing: Jeb Bush Is A Weak Front-Runner
Description
The raw data behind the story "Pols And Polls Say The Same Thing: Jeb Bush Is A Weak Front-Runner" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pols-and-polls-say-the-same-thing-jeb-bush-is-a-weak-front-runner/. This data includes something we call "endorsement points," an attempt to quantify the importance of endorsements by weighting each one according to the position held by the endorser: 10 points for each governor, 5 points for each senator and 1 point for each representative
Usage
endorsements
Format
A data frame with 109 rows representing candidates and 9 variables:
- year
Election year
- party
Political party
- candidate
Candidate running in primary
- endorsement_points
Weighted endorsements through June 30th of the year before the primary
- percentage_endorsement_points
Percentage of total weighted endorsement points for the candidate's political party through June 30th of the year before the primary
- money_raised
Money raised through June 30th of the year before the primary
- percentage_of_money
Percentage of total money raised by the candidate's political party through June 30th of the year before the primary
- primary_vote_percentage
Percentage of votes won in the primary
- won_primary
Did the candidate win the primary?
Source
See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/endorsements-june-30