politico-civic-race-ratings 1.0a1.dev1

Manage electoral race ratings, the POLITICO way.

politico-civic-race-ratings

Ratings scheme

Party direction (2018 and incument position)

• Safe Republican
• Likely Republican
• Lean Republican
• Toss-up
• Lean Democratic
• Likely Democratic
• Safe Democratic

Race features

• Trump bump
• Trump burn
• Party cash splash
• Star candidate
• Dead-weight candidate
• Made Candidate (endrosements)

Page structure

Home page

• Balance of Power by rating
• Modeler
• Filtered table
• Activity feed

Race page

• Current rating
• Shift
• Activity feed
• Candidate info

Historical Data

Where I got the data

• Senate results: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU
• House results: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IG0UN2
• President results (by state): https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/42MVDX

How to process the data

• First, run python manage.py bootstrap_ratings to create the DataProfile object
• Something funky is going on w/ the South Dakota Governor Data Profile ... it isn't generated automatically when you run bootstrap_ratings, which then crashes bootstrap_historical, so create that first.
• Then, run python manage.py bootstrap_historical to get historical race data for corresponding seat.
• PA data ... not currently including: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ztOyo95AVogMPltQxkJGsM4o42H7yzxqfIC5AwiFpkk/edit#gid=1739606676

Notes on the data

• Something is weird in House FL-24 in 2016 ... Frederica S. Wilson got 0 votes ...