remember, we are talking about grassroots conservatives here. Example, pre-election polls show:
Candidate A, total RINO 42%
Candidate B, fair to decent, 38%
nothing exciting
Candidate C, true Reaganite 12%
Who do freepers want to support in above primary? In CT, grassroots Reaganites choose candidate C every time. Marginalists are as marginalists do.
We may have missed one or two or else been deceived by what we saw, but we were pretty careful to screen for sanctity of life (pro-life, anti-fed. $ for stem cell) and 2nd amendment stance as well as the obvious fiscally conservative stances.
What we do not know is how these candidates are polling in their districts. How would you get that information? Major pollsters don't usually spring for primary elections, unless they are very important, like the NY special election (Scozzofazza). Decently financed campaigns may do their own internal polling and also local new outlets, but there aren't many of these in backwater locales.
Speaking for myself, providing as much information as possible to assist local folks in learning about candidates is the first step. This list gives them links at the touch of a button to start their research.
I agree that it would be nice to have much more information about each candidate listed, but that's out of the purview of what IP and I are working on and limited to on a two page Excel document, as you wrote. I think I speak for IP when I write that our goal is to provide a base from which exploration can be easily done and keep that base as up to date as is possible.
This list will soon have it's own home with a web address, so that when it's visited, the most up to date version will always be viewable.