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

Where do the groups spending for or against Dave McCormick stand on energy & climate?

37 groups reported independent expenditures for or against Dave McCormick. 3 of them state a position on energy & climate on their own sites: 2 toward "Emissions rules and clean-energy policy first", 1 toward "Fossil-fuel production and fewer energy regulations first". 34 state none we could find.

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

Emissions rules and clean-energy policy first (2)

  • NRDC ACTION VOTESSuper PACspending against Dave McCormick$2.0MFEC Sched. E ↗

    strongly toward: Emissions rules and clean-energy policy first

    “works to avert dangerous climate change, support healthy people and thriving communities, and conserve and protect nature and wildlife”
    position source ↗model-read · unverified
  • LCV VICTORY FUNDSuper PACspending against Dave McCormick$2.0MFEC Sched. E ↗

    strongly toward: Emissions rules and clean-energy policy first

    “elect environmental champions who will prioritize just and equitable climate solutions”
    position source ↗model-read · unverified

Fossil-fuel production and fewer energy regulations first (1)

No stated position found on its own site (34)

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.