VAR CF0948 NO. CONTACTS FROM HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAND COLUMNS 618 - 618 NUMERIC MD EQ 8 OR GE 9 NUMBER OF SPECIFIED CONTACTS MADE WITH DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE ------------------------------------------------------------------- USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B. DERIVED FROM VCF0929-935. This variable does not count contacts other than the 7 NES-specified contacts (met personally/ attended meeting/ talked to staff/ received In one district in 1992, two Republican 'incumbents' ran against each other (LA06) due to redistricting, but neither candidate had previously represented the geographic area corresponding to the reconfigured district. As a result, this race has been treated as an open race. In House-level thermometers, likes/dislikes, contact etc., one Republican candidate (always the same one) has been folded into the data normally pertaining to the Democratic candidate. VCF0902 (type of race) code 45 can be used to filter out such 1992 Republican cases. Responses referring to an independent or 'other' candidate are not recorded here for districts having only one major party candidate (e.g. type race 23 in VCF0902). NOTE: 946-949 have not been altered as a result of corrections to 1978 data for type of House race (see notes VCF0902). 0. No contacts 1. One contact 2. Two contacts 3. Three contacts 4. Four contacts 5. Five contacts 6. Six contacts 7. Seven contacts 8. Democrat not running 9. NA; DK; INAP, no post IW (1980,1984,1988,1992); Washington D.C.; telephone IW (1984); short form IW (1992); question not used 1978: 782033-782040 1980: 800918-800925,800929-800936,800939-800946 1982: 820176-820183,820186-820193,820213-820220,820267-820274 1984: 840936-840943,840946-840953,840968-840975 1986: 860220-860227,860231-860238,860241-860248 1988: 880715-880722,880726-880733,880736-880743 1990: 900238-900245,900249-900256,900259-900266 1992: 925502-925509 1994: 940503-940509 ==============================