1. Democratic & Republican Party Activists & Followers: Inter- & Intra-Party Differences
2. this is the absolute value of the estimated percent a candidate was ahead or behind of their most competitive challenger (where challenger is used generically to mean one of the other candidates in the race);The data was collected from October 7, 2010 data (the 7 th was picked because the next estimation is for the 13 th which is after the beginning of the original start data of my data collection
3. Campaign Disbursements: this is the raw amount of money spent by each candidate(in $100,000s) as reported by the Federal Election Commission;Median Income of a State: this is the total median income of a state as of 2009 in $10,000s. Data was collected from the U.S. Census online