Nate Gentry is missing

[jeancochrane]

From Marjorie:

In 2016 Natalie Figueroa and Nate Gentry ran for House District 30 and he won. (He's the minority leader). Right now, she's listed as a candidate for that race, but he isn't. I presume that's because she filed as a candidate already. But when you go to his page, under latest race there's a link for the 2016 race. When you click on that, you get to a 2016 landing page, but the details are for 2018. And she is not listed as his opponent on that 2016 landing page.

[jeancochrane]

I've got a little more context on this @mrchili9! Three problems are afoot:

• Nate Gentry hadn't filed for the 2018 race by October 2nd, meaning we don't have his data for 2018. (The SOS site also shows no data for him in 2017/2018 yet.) I anticipate this problem will be fixed when we get an updated data dump from Kari.

• It looks like the wrong District was assigned to Natalie Figueroa's 2016 campaign on the SOS's side, which explains why she's showing up solo in the 2016 race. (We use districts to help us group campaigns into races.) I can fix this in our data, but it'll just get overwritten during our next import, so I've also added it as a question for Kari on our next call.

• Part of why it looked like Nate Gentry's 2016 data was showing up as 2018 was that we hard-code election dates into the "race" pages! This raises the bigger question: do we want to continue showing historical races, or do we want to hide them (i.e. not link to them from the candidate pages)? If we want to keep them, I can add a small bit of logic to correct the dates and show a note indicating that the race took place in the past.