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

Any contact with Democratic House candidate · Asked in 9 waves, 1978–1994 · 15,038 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 'No Democratic candidate running'; 9 'NA; Washington D.C.; telephone IW (1984); short form IW (1992)'. Codebook notes: 1984 NOTE: If R was in a district where no Democratic candidate was running BUT the interview administered was a telephone IW, then VCF0928-935 have been coded 9, not 0. If R was in a district where no Democratic candidate was running BUT the interview administered was an abbreviated telephone IW, then VCF0936 has been coded 9, not 0. 1986 NOTE: In the 1986 Study dataset, 8 major party challengers to the running U.S. House incumbent were mistakenly excluded from challenger data (SEE VCF0919). Two of the omitted challengers were Democratic: contact data for them appear in code 9 (NA) in VCF0928- VCF0936 and VCF0948.