State code
Congressional district, within state; labels sometimes update with redistricting
Year of election
Observation number
Caughey and Sekhon use this observation
Congress number
ICPSR state code
State postal code
Dem margin of victory, in percent of vote
Dem percent of vote
Dem wins election
Dem won previous election
Dem will win next election
Average Dem minus Rep presidential vote, decade ending in year ***0
No incumbent
String: Incumbent status
Previous terms served, Dem candidate
Previous terms served, opponent
State Sec. of State is a Dem
Value of Ob (observation number) for previous election
Value of Ob (observation number) for next election
Dummy: Democratic incumbent
Dummy: Democratic open seat
Dummy: Non-Dem incumbent
Dummy: Non-Dem open seat
Dummy: Dem has strictly more prior experience
Dummy: Non-Dem has strictly more prior experience
Next election: Dem percent of vote
Next election: Dem margin of victory, in percent of vote
Previous election: Dem percent of vote
Previous election: Dem margin of victory, in percent of vote
Governor is Dem
Incumbent DW-NOMINATE score
Percentage of spending accounted for by Dem
Congressional Quarterly rating: -1 is safe opponent, 1 is safe Dem, 0 is competi
Dem margin, rounded down to integer percent
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