House Data: 41k finance summaries from 2200 candidates
I’d like to announce a new project by Offensive Politics called House Data, launching today. House Data is a large-scale extract of FEC Form 3 Summary of receipts of disbursements (pdf warning) of every US House campaign from mid-2001 onward.
The traditional source for campaign finance summaries is the Candidate Summary File, which is [...]
Voter targeting with R
Voter targeting for turnout is the process of scoring registered voters using demographic and electoral variables taken from voter lists and commercial databases. The score of all voters together is used to predict overall turnout, which determines the allocation of campaign resources and directs strategy for voter contact and communication.
Targeting for turnout is a [...]