{
  "id": "2004-september-october-mapping-candidate-support",
  "slug": "2004-september-october-mapping-candidate-support",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2004-september-october-mapping-candidate-support.html",
  "year": 2004,
  "month": "September • October",
  "monthNum": 9,
  "headline": "Mapping candidate support",
  "kicker": "ELECTIONS",
  "author_name": "Ron Campbell",
  "author_title": "Reporter",
  "affiliation": "The Orange County Register",
  "summary": "Ron Campbell used FEC data and GIS mapping to visualize the geographic differences in donor support between George W. Bush and John Kerry in the 2004 election.",
  "keywords": [
    "campaign finance",
    "GIS mapping",
    "2004 election"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Government & Politics",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "ArcView"
  ],
  "full_text": "While reporting on presidential campaign fundraising, Ron Campbell of The Orange County Register used Federal Election Commission campaign contribution data and ArcView 8.3 to show where President Bush and Democratic Party challenger John Kerry were drawing financial support. Campbell prepared these maps (Bush on top left, Kerry on top right) showing the locations of individual donors who gave the maximum $2,000 contribution to each candidate. The maps show that Bush was successful in attracting contributions from a wide area. Kerry's big financial support, in contrast, has come mostly from metropolitan areas. For both candidates, Campbell queried FEC data of individual contributions to count all $2,000 donations by five-digit ZIP code. He then joined those tables to a ZIP code map in ArcView and created a national map (bottom left) and one for southern California (bottom right).",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "pre-v2",
    "extracted_at": "",
    "verified": true
  },
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  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2004-september-october-mapping-candidate-support.html",
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