For political-junkies-cum-number-crunchers: the NCPI. (House, Senate)
As many of North Carolina’s citizens consider whether to run for the state Legislature this year, one of the first questions they ask is whether they have a good possibility of winning. Candidates and political consultants pore over data from past races and voter registration, trying to answer that question. This year, the Civitas Institute is pleased to bring another tool to the table: the North Carolina Partisan Index (NCPI).
Kinda makes me wish I took stats in school. (Nah.)
-Max borders
Seriously? You think people are going to let Civitas tell them about partisanship?
On the other hand, they say it takes one to know one.
Did you actually look at the index? Or are you just being snarky for the sake of being snarky?
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.
Of course he didn’t look at the index, Max. All those numbers might make his brain hurt.
On certain levels, I’d say these maps indicate more about poor candidate recruitment than voter preferences.
An no, he probably didn’t look at it — too much reading.
I think it’s safe to assume that Civitas and the Locke Foundation, having aggressively and publicly promoted Republican candidates, are not qualified to judge the bipartisan credentials of elected officials.
I’m surprised that Civitas expects people to trust them to quantify partisanship.
It’s like building a thermometer out of ice; even if it works, it’s pretty strange.
And a Democratic operative is?
Jerimee, the fact of the matter is that Civitas has developed a map through what appear to be reasonable methods — if you bothered to read them. Instead of taking the old standby attack of targeting the source, you should take a look at the map and the actual statistics. It’s possible your party could even use some of it.
It amazes me how much of politics these days consists of people simply attacking one another aimlessly. Keep it up and you’ll never convince voters that your party has a moral backbone.
The results look pretty reasonable to me, and they prove that I have an uphill climb in my NC House race. I knew that, but this seems to quantify it reasonably.
Thanks, Civitas’ers!