Content # Endorsements through June 30 This folder contains data behind the story [Pols And Polls Say The Same Thing: Jeb Bush Is A Weak Front-Runner](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pols-and-polls-say-the-same-thing-jeb-bush-is-a-weak-front-runner/). This data includes something we call "endorsement points," an attempt to quantify the importance of endorsements by weighting each one according to the position held by the endorser: 10 points for each governor, 5 points for each senator and 1 point for each representative. Header | Definition ---|--------- `year` | Election year `party` | Political party `candidate` | Candidate running in primary `endorsement_points` | Weighted endorsements through June 30th of the year before the primary `percentage_endorsement_points` | Percentage of total weighted endorsement points for the candidate's political party through June 30th of the year before the primary `money_raised` | Money raised through June 30th of the year before the primary `percentage_of_money` | Percentage of total money raised by the candidate's political party through June 30th of the year before the primary `primary_vote_percentage` | Percentage of votes won in the primary `won_primary` | Did the candidate win the primary? Context This is a dataset from [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/) hosted on their [GitHub](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data). Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using GitHub's [API](https://developer.github.com/v3/?) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). This dataset is distributed under the [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license.