Text from the campaign websites of 2026 U.S. House nominees, archived October 29, 2026. Each site is matched against a dictionary of issues, names and phrases, then compared by party.
The biggest Democratic tilt is toward — (— of Democrats' issue talk vs — for Republicans). The biggest Republican tilt is toward — (— vs —).
Which issues each party talks about
Share of issue talk: of all the issue keywords on a candidate's site, the share that belong to this topic, averaged across each party's candidates. This adjusts for Democratic sites being longer.
Share of candidates whose site mentions the topic at least once. Longer sites are more likely to mention anything, and Democratic sites run longer.
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Districts as drawn for the 2026 election, from the Census Bureau's 120th Congress boundaries. Click a district or pick one from the lists to see who is running.
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Do candidates talk about data centers where they are being built?
Share of each party's nominees whose site mentions data centers, grouped by how many operating, approved or proposed data centers their district has. Data center locations come from FracTracker Alliance's national data center map.
DemocratsRepublicansWho and what they name
Share of each party's candidates whose site names the person or label at least once. A mention can be praise or attack.
Endorsers and allies
Share of each party's candidates whose site names the group, usually on an endorsements page.
Democratic vocabulary
Share of each party's candidates who use the phrase. The thick bar is Democrats, the thin bar Republicans.
Republican vocabulary
Share of each party's candidates who use the phrase. The thick bar is Republicans, the thin bar Democrats.
Quote finder
One sentence per candidate, pulled automatically from the first place their site mentions the topic. Check the candidate's site before you quote it, since some sentences describe an opponent's position.
Every candidate
Top topics are the three that take the largest share of the site's issue talk. Click a column to sort.
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How this was measured
The source is a crawl of each nominee's campaign website: the homepage plus linked pages such as Issues, About and Endorsements. When a live site blocked the crawler, an Internet Archive copy from the same week was used. Sites with almost no text, and nominees with no site, are left out.
Before matching, lines about donations, privacy, cookies, text-message terms and online stores are removed, along with repeated lines on the same site.
- Issues. Each topic is a list of keywords and phrases. For example, "Data centers" matches "data center" and "hyperscale", and "Artificial intelligence" matches "artificial intelligence" and a capitalized "AI".
- Share of issue talk counts every keyword hit on a site, takes each topic's share of that site's total, and averages the shares within each party. Every candidate counts equally, however long their site is.
- % who mention it is the share of a party's candidates with at least one hit.
- Signature phrases were picked by hand from the phrases that differ most between the two parties' sites. Boilerplate such as store and privacy text was skipped.
The district map uses the Census Bureau's 2026 TIGER/Line boundaries for the 120th Congress, which include the districts redrawn before this election. They are clipped to the shoreline and simplified for the web, so lines are approximate up close.
Data center locations come from FracTracker Alliance's data center map (downloaded July 28, 2026). Each site is placed in a 2026 district by its coordinates. Sites with low location confidence are left out. "Operating" includes expansions, "proposed" includes pre-proposals, and cancelled or suspended projects are counted separately.
Caveats: keyword matching can't tell support from opposition. A Democrat attacking a Republican's abortion record counts as talking about abortion. Endorsement lists, news clips and press releases all count as site text. Incumbent, challenger and open-seat labels come from FEC filings.