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Yee", "claim_count": 1, "party": "Democratic", "source_count": 1, "stance": "oppose" }, { "candidate_id": "matt-mahan", "candidate_name": "Matt Mahan", "claim_count": 1, "party": "Democratic", "source_count": 1, "stance": "support" } ], "claim_count": 3, "curation_note": "Codex semantic grouping over deterministic source-backed approach clusters; source rows remain attached to the child approaches.", "evidence_quality": "limited", "group_id": "idea-group:taxes-economy:fiscal-discipline-performance", "group_kind": "approach", "group_slug": "fiscal-discipline-performance", "idea_ids": [ "idea:taxes-economy:budget-discipline", "idea:taxes-economy:government-performance-before-taxes" ], "issue_id": "taxes-economy", "label": "Fiscal discipline and government performance", "party_aggregates": [ { "candidate_count": 3, "claim_count": 3, "issue_candidate_count": 8, "party": "Democratic" } ], "primary_approach_id": "taxes-economy--budget-discipline", "primary_idea_slug": "budget-discipline", "quality_flags": ["mixed_support_opposition", "single_candidate", "single_source"], "review_status": "codex_curated_review_candidate", "source_count": 3, "stance_counts": { "oppose": 1, "qualify": 0, "record": 0, "support": 2, "unclear": 0 }, "summary": "Budget, audit, procurement, fraud-detection, and performance-before-tax approaches." }, { "approach_ids": [ "taxes-economy--jobs-business-growth", "taxes-economy--consumer-financial-oversight" ], "candidate_count": 2, "candidate_summaries": [ { "candidate_id": "chad-bianco", "candidate_name": "Chad Bianco", "claim_count": 1, "party": "Republican", "source_count": 1, "stance": "qualify" }, { "candidate_id": "katie-porter", "candidate_name": "Katie Porter", "claim_count": 1, "party": "Democratic", "source_count": 1, "stance": "record" } ], "claim_count": 2, "curation_note": "Codex semantic grouping over deterministic source-backed approach clusters; source rows remain attached to the child approaches.", "evidence_quality": "limited", "group_id": "idea-group:taxes-economy:business-infrastructure-finance", "group_kind": "approach", "group_slug": "business-infrastructure-finance", "idea_ids": [ "idea:taxes-economy:jobs-business-growth", "idea:taxes-economy:consumer-financial-oversight" ], "issue_id": "taxes-economy", "label": "Business climate and infrastructure finance", "party_aggregates": [ { "candidate_count": 1, "claim_count": 1, "issue_candidate_count": 8, "party": "Democratic" }, { "candidate_count": 1, "claim_count": 1, "issue_candidate_count": 2, "party": "Republican" } ], "primary_approach_id": "taxes-economy--jobs-business-growth", "primary_idea_slug": "jobs-business-growth", "quality_flags": ["record_only", "single_candidate", "single_source"], "review_status": "codex_curated_review_candidate", "source_count": 2, "stance_counts": { "oppose": 0, "qualify": 1, "record": 1, "support": 0, "unclear": 0 }, "summary": "Business-growth, consumer-finance oversight, and usage-fee approaches to economic infrastructure." } ], "issue": { "analysis_questions": [ "Is the row about immediate household relief, long-term revenue, business climate, or budget discipline?", "Who pays or benefits, and is the revenue or savings one-time, recurring, broad, or targeted?", "What tradeoff exists between affordability, public services, tax-base stability, and economic incentives?" ], "approach_ids": [ "taxes-economy--broad-cost-of-living-priorities", "taxes-economy--tax-cuts-relief", "taxes-economy--tax-base-stability", "taxes-economy--billionaire-tax-proposals", "taxes-economy--corporate-loophole-revenue", "taxes-economy--budget-discipline", "taxes-economy--jobs-business-growth", "taxes-economy--consumer-financial-oversight", "taxes-economy--government-performance-before-taxes", "taxes-economy--targeted-loophole-reform" ], "candidate_count": 10, "claim_count": 38, "coverage_summary": { "average_score": 47, "by_quality": { "comparative": 4, "limited": 1, "record_only": 1, "single_candidate": 5 }, "warning": "Coverage summarizes normalized source rows only; missing rows are not opposition." }, "idea_group_ids": [ "idea-group:taxes-economy:tax-relief-and-cost-of-living", "idea-group:taxes-economy:progressive-revenue-and-tax-base", "idea-group:taxes-economy:fiscal-discipline-performance", "idea-group:taxes-economy:business-infrastructure-finance" ], "issue_id": "taxes-economy", "label": "Taxes & Economy", "party_denominators": [ { "candidate_count": 8, "party": "Democratic" }, { "candidate_count": 2, "party": "Republican" } ], "problem_statement": "Tax and economy rows mix household affordability, state revenue, business conditions, and budget stability. The core question is whether a claim is lowering costs, raising revenue, changing incentives, or explaining economic pressure.", "summary": "Tax policy, budgets, jobs, business climate, inflation, and household economic pressure.", "theme_ids": [ "affordability", "consumer-protection-oversight", "cost-of-living", "economics-and-public-finance", "economy-affordability", "finance-and-financial-sector", "taxation", "taxes", "taxes-affordability", "taxes-budget" ] }, "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=taxes-economy", "app_issue": "https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=issues&issue=taxes-economy", "json": "https://polit.pages.dev/llm/issues/taxes-economy.json", "markdown": "https://polit.pages.dev/llm/issues/taxes-economy.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" } } }