Using the donor data is a really smart idea. How did you get from donor data to candidate positions? Did you assign manual positions to different kinds of don

Using the donor data is a really smart idea. How did you get from donor data to candidate positions? Did you assign manual positions to different kinds of donors and then aggregate them by candidate? I'd love to know more about how you got and analyzed the data. I worked on this at YC Hacks last year -- http://www.hipvote.us/ http://www.hipvote.us/ . The idea was to get a push notification when a bill came up for vote, read a summary, and then vote on it yourself. After deciding, you got to see how your congresspeople voted, and you could check your similarity to them over time. We also ran into the "meaning" problem with bills, and the incumbent problem.