The raw data behind the story "Looking For Clues: Who Is Going To Run For President In 2016?" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/2016-president-who-is-going-to-run/.

cand_state_20150114

Format

A data frame with 25 rows representing potential presidential primary candidates and 5 variables:

person

Potential presidential candidate

party

Political party

date

Date of event

latest

Latest statement

score

Likelihood of running score, 1 = Not running, 5 = Definitely running

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/potential-candidates

See also