Ah, right! I forgot you don't need the actual ballots which will be gone. If the data is still out there which it should be, great! Granted, this was a state where you had straight-ticket and individual options. In Texas, for example, that is no longer the case. I'd LOVE to see that.
I suspect with a modification of the analysis you could still see the effect in places that don't have the separate straight/individual options. If you iteratively compare the performance of each candidate in a head-to-head race vs their party's overall performance as the denominator, the ramp-function factor I think would still show up wherever it had been used (just maybe not quite as starkly strikingly clear).
Ah, right! I forgot you don't need the actual ballots which will be gone. If the data is still out there which it should be, great! Granted, this was a state where you had straight-ticket and individual options. In Texas, for example, that is no longer the case. I'd LOVE to see that.
I suspect with a modification of the analysis you could still see the effect in places that don't have the separate straight/individual options. If you iteratively compare the performance of each candidate in a head-to-head race vs their party's overall performance as the denominator, the ramp-function factor I think would still show up wherever it had been used (just maybe not quite as starkly strikingly clear).
Thank you for that - yes, sounds good!