Let's Pick A District

Three main types of data:

1. Election results, by precinct
2. Voter files
3. Voter partisanship
4. polling?
5. centrist nb data

Eval considerations, 1967-2010:

1. margin of victory
2. prior success of independents
3. turnout-- total votes for now, need to get historical pop data

Desirable:

1. competitive
2. prior successful indeps
3. low turnout