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Running as outsider, Budd campaign now dines mostly in “the swamp”

By Chris Gentilviso November 2, 2018 November 5, 2018 0

Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) ran his first campaign in 2016 on being a Washington outsider. But in the first 18 months since his election, Budd’s campaign finance reports show that he spent more than 20 times as much money on D.C. dining than he did on food and drink back in his home state.

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Tracking the Purple Wave: N.C. Voters Turn Away from Party Labels

By Chris Gentilviso October 24, 2018 October 25, 2018 0

In June 2017, the New York Times Magazine pondered: “Is North Carolina the Future of American Politics?” As legislators dueled over the controversial “bathroom bill,” the national piece panned the state as “narrowly split between Democratic and Republican Parties that agree on virtually nothing.” Here in 2018, North Carolina voters agree on something at a staggering rate: don’t register with […]

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7 new ways to think about N.C. voters

By Scott Smith May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018 0 cluster analysis, machine learning, precincts

Using a machine learning technique called cluster analysis and publicly available data from the N.C. Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, UNC masters student Scott Smith turned the state’s nearly 3,000 voting precincts from the 2016 election into seven distinct types of voting communities in North Carolina.

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In N.C. voting data, not everything is what it first seems

By Danielle Chemtob November 20, 2017 November 20, 2017 0 data cleaning, dirty data

First in our series of posts that help you navigate the pitfalls you’ll come across when analyzing North Carolina’s voting and elections data. In our first installment, we have what appears in the database to be North Carolinians with amazingly long lives and one voter who seems to have traveled in time. Spoiler alert: neither are what they appear to be.

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Introducing NC Votes

By Ryan Thornburg November 6, 2017 November 6, 2017 0

The goal of this new project is to help make the power of voting and election data in North Carolina more accessible to journalists and everyday citizens. Here’s what we’ve done so far and what we’re planning to do. Please come along for the ride!

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