Polling Data Added to Analysis Pages
You can now view polling data for a given House/Senate race
I’ve been busy with a number of personal and work projects, but I’ve managed over the last couple weeks to squeeze an update onto the site that I personally find extremely valuable and helpful, and I hope you will too.
Polling.
On the House and Senate pages, you can see an index for all the seats in each chamber, along with information about who occupies which seat, district maps, external links, and now, Analysis pages. I talked about these pages before, when I added FEC Data to them. I’ve now added polling data from 538, which you can see here in this page for Sherrod Brown’s Senate seat, or in this page for analysis of what will become of Katie Porter’s House District since she’s running for Senate.
I’m hoping this will change, but there are very few polls published for House seats— right now maybe about 20, compared to at least a hundred for the Senate. It’s still February, I suppose, and whatever the totals look like as the elections draw closer, they will increase in number.
To complement these updates, I made some changes to the nav bar at the top of every page, and made main index pages for the analysis pages for the House and the Senate, that will hopefully make it a little easier to navigate from race to race.
I also wrote some backend automation stuff that will send me a nice email when there are updates to the frequently updated data for FEC data and polling data.
I’ll be back soon with some analysis for the field-narrowing for the many, many seats that will be on the ballot in five states for Super Tuesday on March 5th.
On another note, I have been trying to think of ways to get the word out about this site. Search engines are definitely hitting it hard, presumably because the pages are just jammed with links, and links are like catnip to web crawlers. But I think the data I’ve assembled here is valuable and useful. If you think so too, please share it with any platform you like to use.
I’ll be back soon.