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Hi,

First, thank you very much for making this awesome resource so easily usable! It was extremely valuable for us.

I found that all rows by president Gerald Ford are classified as candidate=0 and, if you can't find him, that's because his speaker value is incorrectly labeled as Gerlad Ford 😅 .

Kind regards

Hi @jamesmartherus, thanks so much for your work in creating this amazing resource!

I think I found a small error: there are two observations for John Edwards coded as "Pres" in the type variable. For example, running the following:

library(debates)
data(debate_transcripts)
table(debate_transcripts$speaker[debate_transcripts$type=="Pres" & debate_transcripts$candidate==1], exclude = F)

Gets you this:

I was focusing only on the general election presidential debates data, so I'm not sure if there are also issues for John Edwards in other type values (e.g. in primary or VP debates data).

Unrelated question: just wanted to check, but the missing debates between 1960 and 1976 was intentional/something you were aware of, right? Again, just want to make sure it wasn't supposed to be in the data or anything.

James, thank you for putting this great resource together!

FYI, there appear to be 3 cases in 2020 primary debates when a speaker is classified as not being a candidate

• John Delaney
• "Bill deBlasio" (but "Bill DeBlasio" rows are classified correctly)
• Kamala Harris (but only in one dabate: 2020-10-08)

(I noticed this while running debate_transcripts %>% filter(election_year==2020) %>% group_by(candidate) %>% count(speaker) %>% View() )