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Money Trails · Pennsylvania · U.S. Senate · 2024

Where do the groups spending for or against Dave McCormick stand on defense & national security?

37 groups reported independent expenditures for or against Dave McCormick. 0 of them state a position on defense & national security on their own sites: 0 toward "Higher defense spending and more foreign military aid", 0 toward "Lower defense spending and fewer foreign military commitments". 37 state none we could find.

Start with @graph to draw the answer as a flow diagram.

No stated position found on its own site (37)

Assumptions and limits

  • A stated position is what the group says on its own site, read by a language model and kept only where the quote appears verbatim on the fetched page; it is marked unverified until a person checks it. It is not what the group's ads or notices said, and not a claim about which dollars went where.
  • Positions were looked up for 17 of 98 outside spenders in this race; a group with none found may simply have no site text on this issue.
  • Spending for or against a candidate is the filed Schedule E total; a group's position and its spending stance are shown side by side, never combined.

How the question is read. Questions are answered by a language model that writes one read-only query over the filings graph; the site validates and runs it and shows every returned row with its filing source, and the model's summary is withheld unless every number in it is in those rows. When a precomputed page matches the question it is linked as a related page. Where the graph is not connected, the browser matcher picks a page instead.

On issue pages the groups' stated positions were read from their own sites by a model offline and kept only where the quote appears verbatim on the page; each is labelled verified or unverified.

How the answers were built. Answers are precomputed from this race's ledger, ads, chain and entity files by pipeline/campaign_commons/trails.py; no language model or graph database is involved in building them. Three questions are supported: who is spending for/against a candidate (Schedule E), who paid for the ads about a candidate (ad sponsors, their Schedule E about the candidate, and each sponsor's own funders), and who funds a committee (its receipts hop by hop). Every figure links to the FEC or Google record it was read from. Money edges and targeting edges are separate; an independent expenditure moves no money to a candidate, and a funder is never joined to a particular ad because pooled dollars cannot be allocated that way.