Election campaign

Election campaign: Should this link to Political District

2008-05-06T03:09:49.0007Z

Ed, take a look at any of the California legislature or Congressional seats to see how this is modeled with the Primary Election type, for example, this year’s race for the 8th California Congressional District seat, currently held by Nancy Pelosi. There are three primary elections, as well as one write-in candidate who (assuming she collects enough signatures) goes directly to the main ballot.

The presidential model is much messier, since strictly only the Electoral College elects the president, and in some states, the primary is binding on the delegates, while in other states it is advisory or supplemental. No one has taken on the task of modeling this hugely complicated structure yet. Consider also that in November, different sets of candidates will be on the ballot in different states; one would really need to model each state’s presidential election as a separate thing, which is just fantastically messy.

Got a compelling use case? (-:

Election campaign: Should this link to Political District

2008-05-06T02:23:55.0000Z

How about making this type nested, where sub-campaigns are linked to larger ones? For example, we are about to have our NC primaries. Some of the people are running for national seats. There is currently no way to link these state-wide election campaigns to the national ones.

Election campaign: Should this link to Political District

2008-01-30T01:36:14.0000Z

Okay - I suspect that the 3 entries under the campaign has come in through the campaign contributions and my incorrect setup. I'll make the corrections as you suggest and see how it looks.

I'm not finding it as intuitive as I'd like - thinking that others may struggle as well. To me an election is broader - such as BC General Election. A campaign would be the battles for individual seats or ridings that make up the general election boundary. In terms of your system the General Election is this fall, but campaigns would be waged for seats all across the country.

I'll keep at it though.

Ray

Election campaign: Should this link to Political District

2008-01-30T00:29:59.0000Z

The Election campaign links to an Election, which is linked to a district. I notice you have Kevin Falcon running for British Columbia general election 2005 (in three separate campaigns, no less!); instead, he should run for a particular seat. Surrey Cloverdale Riding 2005 should be an Election, not an Election campaign; Kevin Falcon for BC Parliament 2005 should be an Election campaign contesting that election. Does that make more sense?

Election campaign: Should this link to Political District

2008-01-29T21:09:24.0005Z

Can a property be added to this type that links to its Political District? What is the best process to ask for this type of thing?

Ray

Election campaign: Campaign contirbutors

2008-01-29T05:50:27.0000Z

What if you made a campaign contributor type without any included types and add this as an expected type of a contributor property of a campaign contribution type. Reciprocate the contribution type back to the contributor type through its new suggested property. This way, any person, corporation or other could be tagged as a campaign contributor and queried by type or contribution amount through the contributor and contribution types as well as by the co-types of the various contributors. This approach might be a little simpler for data entry and more flexible for queries.

Election campaign: Campaign contirbutors

2008-01-29T05:10:46.0000Z

This sounds reasonable, Ray. Note that a campaign right now has a “Total amount raised” property; it could also have one or more properties for contributions, as you point out. I would encourage you to create a test contribution type in your own domain and play with it for a bit. Some interesting questions that come to mind are how to distinguish—or whether it’s important to distinguish—direct cash contributions, in-kind contributions, indirect contributions, and aggregators as well as personal vs. corporate contributions. And what about estimated contributions for politicians in countries without strict reporting requirements, or substantiated allegations of unreported contributions?

Election campaign: Campaign contirbutors

2008-01-29T01:22:12.0005Z

I'd like to find a way of linking campaign contributors to election campaigns. I think that a new type under Government would be the way to do it. The type would include a property linked to election campaign.

I think it would take 3 types - Campaign contributor - personal, Campaign contributor - corporate and Campaign contributor - Other. That way direct links to person and corporation could be included as properties.

Am I on the right path.

Ray