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Browse Candidates: Adding Star for incumbents #647
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Good catch @PaulClark2. Now that you bring this up, I'm thinking we should drop the incumbent star from this page entirely, and remove the corresponding data from the API--we currently include Thoughts @LindsayYoung @noahmanger? |
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Sounds good. Let's remove it from here. |
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As discussed in fecgov#647, candidate incumbency status is only defined per election, and not across a candidate's electoral history. Since the candidate browse view shows summary information about candidates rather than per-cycle information, it doesn't make sense to show the incumbency indicator here. [Resolves fecgov#647]
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On browse candidate pages, there isn’t a place on the page that tells you what the star means. In cases where a candidate is listed as having more than one election year, the star is meaningless or just confusing. What election year does the star apply to?
https://fec-dev-web.18f.gov/candidates?cycle=2016
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