Looking For Clues: Who Is Going To Run For President In 2016? — cand_state_20150114 • fivethirtyeight

The raw data behind the story "Looking For Clues: Who Is Going To Run For President In 2016?" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/2016-president-who-is-going-to-run/.

cand_state_20150114

Format

A data frame with 25 rows representing potential presidential primary candidates and 5 variables:

person: Potential presidential candidate
party: Political party
date: Date of event
latest: Latest statement
score: Likelihood of running score, 1 = Not running, 5 = Definitely running

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/potential-candidates

See also

cand_events_20150114, cand_events_20150130, and cand_state_20150130