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source rows remain attached to the child approaches.", "evidence_quality": "limited", "group_id": "idea-group:energy-climate:water-wildfire-resilience", "group_kind": "approach", "group_slug": "water-wildfire-resilience", "idea_ids": ["idea:energy-climate:water-wildfire-resilience"], "issue_id": "energy-climate", "label": "Water and wildfire resilience", "party_aggregates": [ { "candidate_count": 1, "claim_count": 1, "issue_candidate_count": 6, "party": "Democratic" }, { "candidate_count": 1, "claim_count": 1, "issue_candidate_count": 2, "party": "Republican" } ], "primary_approach_id": "energy-climate--water-wildfire-resilience", "primary_idea_slug": "water-wildfire-resilience", "quality_flags": [], "review_status": "codex_curated_review_candidate", "source_count": 2, "stance_counts": { "oppose": 0, "qualify": 0, "record": 0, "support": 2, "unclear": 0 }, "summary": "Water, wildfire, drought, forest, and natural-resource resilience approaches." } ], "issue": { "analysis_questions": [ "Is the row about emissions goals, energy infrastructure, wildfire/water adaptation, or household affordability?", "Does it name a delivery bottleneck such as grid capacity, timelines, subsidies, permits, or hazard reduction?", "What tradeoff exists between speed, cost, reliability, emissions, and local/environmental review?" ], "approach_ids": [ "energy-climate--clean-energy-transition", "energy-climate--energy-infrastructure-buildout", "energy-climate--water-wildfire-resilience", "energy-climate--clean-vehicle-affordability-timeline" ], "candidate_count": 8, "claim_count": 28, "coverage_summary": { "average_score": 57, "by_quality": { "comparative": 2, "limited": 1, "single_candidate": 2 }, "warning": "Coverage summarizes normalized source rows only; missing rows are not opposition." }, "idea_group_ids": [ "idea-group:energy-climate:clean-energy-buildout", "idea-group:energy-climate:water-wildfire-resilience" ], "issue_id": "energy-climate", "label": "Climate, Water & Energy Infrastructure", "party_denominators": [ { "candidate_count": 6, "party": "Democratic" }, { "candidate_count": 2, "party": "Republican" } ], "problem_statement": "Climate, energy, water, wildfire, and infrastructure rows are related delivery problems: California has to decarbonize and adapt while keeping the grid, transportation, insurance, and household costs workable.", "summary": "Clean energy, transmission, climate policy, water, wildfire, natural resources, and grid reliability.", "theme_ids": [ "climate", "climate-energy", "climate-governance", "electricity-utilities", "energy", "energy-utilities", "environment", "public-lands-and-natural-resources", "water-resources-development", "wildfire", "wildfire-disaster-resilience", "wildfire-water" ] }, "limitations": [ "This is a research prototype, not a voter guide, endorsement, or final assessment.", "Many rows are model-generated or unreviewed and should be treated as evidence-navigation aids.", "Missing or limited coverage means the dataset has not ingested, normalized, or balanced that surface yet; it is not evidence that a candidate lacks activity there.", "Use source URLs and record IDs when citing claims. Prefer the linked JSON/JSONL companion files for retrieval." ], "links": { "app_ideas": "https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=ideas&issue=energy-climate", "app_issue": "https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=issues&issue=energy-climate", "json": "https://polit.pages.dev/llm/issues/energy-climate.json", "markdown": "https://polit.pages.dev/llm/issues/energy-climate.md" }, "schema_version": "llm-static-exports/v1", "stance_guide": { "oppose": { "description": "Source rows reject or argue against the selected approach statement.", "label": "Opposes this approach" }, "qualify": { "description": "Source rows partly support, condition, or mix the selected approach with another claim.", "label": "Mixed / conditional signal" }, "record": { "description": "Source rows describe a record signal rather than a current position.", "label": "Record-only signal" }, "support": { "description": "Source rows back the selected approach statement.", "label": "Supports this approach" }, "unclear": { "description": "Source rows mention the topic but do not clearly support or oppose the approach.", "label": "Unclear signal" } } }