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Political Contributions By Venture Capitalists (view source)
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*ballot_measures.committees.php - (key) Provides details on ballet measure committees, including committee ID
*ballot_measures.committees.contributions.php - (key,committee_id) Provides details on contributions to specific ballot measures.
Requests to the server become very slow when the page number is high. This maybe due to a lack of database caching (particularly, the php scripts may be requesting data from the first page each time). This is particularly problematic when requesting the candidates list, which for most research purposes will be needed as a starting point for subsequent requests. One work-around this problem is to request candidates by state. The state_postal_code variable (presumably) follows the [http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html USPS state abbreviation convention]. The codes provided in [http://www.edegan.com/repository/USPS-StateCodes.txt USPS-StateCodes.txt].
