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Offensive quotes by politicians and the corporations who fund them
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Handle "not in office" differently #18

Closed shannonturner closed 10 years ago

shannonturner commented 10 years ago

When originally written, I didn't know exactly how to handle showing whether or not someone is in office based on the returns from the Sunlight APIs since I'd only seen one cycle (2012) of data; now, many of the politicians are not returning accurate results.

shannonturner commented 10 years ago

Current officeholding status no longer shown as of 39a5f62701adcc9b55e22ddb1339a717ac23b3a0

Sunlight's influence explorer does not have one sunlight ID per person; they have one per "person in office," so a person who runs for multiple offices over the course of their career may have multiple sunlight IDs, making this difficult to accurately track and keep up to date.