Have you had any contact with, or learned anything about, the House challenger?

Any contact with House challenger · Asked in 9 waves, 1978–1994 · 11,144 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses

Codes that include 'no Pre/Post IW' were dropped for respondents without that interview. Dropped as not asked: 0 'Incumbent candidate unopposed or not running; challenger not in major party'; 9 'NA; Washington D.C.; telephone IW (1984); short form IW (1992)'. Codebook notes: GENERAL NOTE: Districts in which the respondent’s U.S. House representative was not running for re-election have been coded 0. 1984 NOTE: if R was in a district where no incumbent was running or where the incumbent was unopposed (or opposed by a non-major party challenger) BUT the interview administered was a telephone IW, then VCF0919-926 have been coded 9, not 0. If R was in a district where no incumbent was running or where the incumbent was unopposed (or opposed by a non- major party challenger) BUT the interview administered was an abbreviated telephone IW, then VCF0927 has been coded 9, not 0. 1986 NOTE: in the 1986 Study data, 8 major party challengers to the running U.S. House incumbent were mistakenly excluded from challenger data (6 Republican challengers, 2 Democratic challengers). Contact data for these individuals have been coded 9 (NA) in VCF0919-927 and VCF0947.