1. What is the purpose of rating legislators? A minority necessarily opposes each legislator, since they voted against them. A Republican likely won’t be happy with a Democrat, and vice-versa. Ratings don’t track voting, do they? An example is Nancy Pelosi, where she is consistently elected with a large district majority yet her rating is low. But if ratings did track voting, they would just reflect the party majority of a district (a legislator from 90% Democrat district would have better rating than one from 60% Democrat district).
2. How do you verify the rating is from someone in the correct district?
3. What API are you using for data?
4. You may already be aware, but zip codes don’t map 1-to-1 with districts. IIRC about 10% of zip codes match more than one district, so a full street address is needed to match the correct district.
[+] [-] alexmingoia|5 years ago|reply
2. How do you verify the rating is from someone in the correct district?
3. What API are you using for data?
4. You may already be aware, but zip codes don’t map 1-to-1 with districts. IIRC about 10% of zip codes match more than one district, so a full street address is needed to match the correct district.
[+] [-] countbackula|5 years ago|reply