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/fivethirtyeight/endorsements-june-30/

├ README.md

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├ data/endorsements-june-30.csv

https://datahub.io/fivethirtyeight/endorsements-june-30/_r/-/data/endorsements-june-30.csv

└ datapackage.json

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README.md— documentation

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endorsements-june-30

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Schema

name	type	format
year	integer	default
party	string	default
candidate	string	default
endorsement_points	integer	default
percentage_endorsement_points	number	default
money_raised	integer	default
percentage_of_money	number	default
primary_vote_percentage	number	default
won_primary	string	default

Data Files

File	Description	Size	Last modified	Download
endorsements-june-30		6.32 kB	about 2 months ago	endorsements-june-30

Files	Size	Format	Created	Updated	License	Source
1	6.32 kB	csv		about 2 months ago		FiveThirtyEight - Endorsements June 30

Endorsements through June 30

This folder contains data behind the story 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.

Header	Definition
`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?

This dataset was scraped from FiveThirtyEight - endorsements-june-30