Attribution
- Wikipedia. Ratings, candidate lists, poll tables, and the generic ballot are fetched with the Wikipedia REST API (
en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html). Wikipedia text is available under CC BY-SA. Credit Wikipedia, and link the article that supplied the table. - Forecasters. Cook Political Report, Sabato’s Crystal Ball, Inside Elections, and the other houses are quoted only as they appear in those Wikipedia tables, with the as-of date and the link Wikipedia printed. Their sites are not scraped. Cook Political ReportDecision Desk HQThe EconomistFifty Plus OneFox NewsInside ElectionsRealClearPoliticsSabato's Crystal BallSilver BulletinSplit Ticket
- Kalshi. Prices from
api.elections.kalshi.com. Attribute Kalshi. - Polymarket. Prices from
gamma-api.polymarket.com. Attribute Polymarket. - PredictIt. Off unless
ENABLE_PREDICTIT=1. PredictIt publishes market data for non-commercial use and requires attribution to PredictIt. Leave it off for any commercial deployment. - Federal Election Commission. Senate receipts from
api.open.fec.govwhen an API key is configured. Candidate pages link back to fec.gov. - civicAPI. Results adapter uses civicapi.org, which is free for commercial use with attribution and makes its own upstream calls. Test-data responses must be labeled synthetic.
- Census Bureau. Congressional district and state boundaries are Census TIGER / cartographic boundary files, public domain. Missouri is drawn from the 119th Congress layer (the restored 2022 plan). Other states use the 120th Congress layer.
- News. Headlines are titles and links from The Hill campaign RSS and Politico politics RSS. The articles stay on those sites.
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