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  "id": 2760,
  "title": "a problem about frequency counts files.",
  "url": "/competitions/cir-prospect/discussion/2760",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2012-09-26T21:47:38.697Z",
  "votes": null,
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  "content": "<p>It is said that there are some files telling the&nbsp;frequency counts, however, i dont find them in the zip....so where can i find them?</p>",
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      "id": "14855",
      "postDate": "09/26/2012 21:47:38",
      "content": "<p>It is said that there are some files telling the&nbsp;frequency counts, however, i dont find them in the zip....so where can i find them?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "14856",
      "postDate": "09/26/2012 21:52:20",
      "content": "<p>Unfortunately that part of the documentation is out of date -- those files actually no longer exist for this year's data. You can find ballpark information here, although the data uploaded for the contest is a bit older than that stored on the FEC site,\r\n so the specific counts won't match up: http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftpdet.shtml</p>",
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      "id": "15664",
      "postDate": "10/15/2012 23:18:27",
      "content": "<p>Try Archive.org and the FEC FTP server: ftp://ftp.fec.gov is good too. Look in the individual year and data_dictionaries folder.</p>",
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      "id": 14856,
      "author_name": "cjdd3b",
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      "post_date": "09/26/2012 21:52:20",
      "content": "<p>Unfortunately that part of the documentation is out of date -- those files actually no longer exist for this year's data. You can find ballpark information here, although the data uploaded for the contest is a bit older than that stored on the FEC site,\r\n so the specific counts won't match up: http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftpdet.shtml</p>",
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    {
      "id": 15664,
      "author_name": "brandonrobertz",
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      "post_date": "10/15/2012 23:18:27",
      "content": "<p>Try Archive.org and the FEC FTP server: ftp://ftp.fec.gov is good too. Look in the individual year and data_dictionaries folder.</p>",
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