If independent wins a House race, the BoP bar-chart label won't work

[mileswwatkins]

Essentially unlikely to happen though

[alykat]

Bringing this back b/c of AK-House

[mileswwatkins]

It looks like the Alaska House race is still a two-person, major-party-only contest, right? (FTE, RCP)

[alykat]

Updated the code so that independent winners in the House go to the D side of the bar, which should cover us for the AK case if that goes that way. Will need to verify footnote language (and when it should be deployed) w/ Arnie.

Doesn't solve the problem entirely (what if there's a major third-party GOP-friendly candidate next time around?), but maybe addresses it for now.

[mileswwatkins]

Very good catch. The AP API lists her party as Udl, even though she won the Democratic nomination later on.

Another option would be to override her party value to Dem; maybe that would be editorially clearer?

[mileswwatkins]

I'll also need to update the BoP/chamber-calling logic to handle this individual, if we don't hard-code her to Dem.

[mileswwatkins]

It looks like we could insert a party override via Peewee/SQL, right before finishing results-load:

https://github.com/nprapps/elections18-general/blob/master/fabfile/data.py#L153-L156

[mileswwatkins]

No footnote needed, and Galvin will now be treated like a Democrat, so we're all clear here.

[mileswwatkins]