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What this search covers
This searches bounded public indexes—not private research or full documents. Finance searches one selected retained election cycle, without combining totals. Choose Polling questions or enable its all-record option to search retained subjects, result choices, dates and methodology. Exact questionnaires may not be available. Predictions start with published summaries and bylines; opt in to search the complete published quotes from that same release, never full transcripts. Current delivery does not mean current reporting: check each record’s own dates.
Data loads only after a search or an explicit category change. Legislation starts with its first current-summary partition; lobbying starts with the current filing index. Choose Search more retained records in those groups or Polling questions to search up to three additional metadata partitions per click. Up to two reads run together. You can stop after the current read; changing your query or category also stops further archive reads. Completed reads remain cached in this page. Failed indexes and partitions need an explicit Retry.
All available retained partitions does not mean every record at the original source. Source collection gaps, excluded organizations, conflicting identities and browser limits remain visible. The browser limit is 60,000 legislative metadata rows, 20,000 filing rows or 50,000 retained poll records. Polling begins with one partition (up to 200 records) and keeps source-bound corrections, review status, original percentages and incomplete-coverage labels. Quote release mismatches fail closed. No full documents, historical policy versions, transcripts or provider collections are loaded. Source restrictions and public visibility rules still apply.
For deeper searches: Policy desk, Campaign finance, Lobbying disclosures, Polling history, or Prediction receipts.