*https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/SJBWC3
**FIPS, year (non-continuous -- election years), mayor_party_final (D,R, etc.), month, FIPS_Place_ID, and others... From 1945 to 2014!
***FIPS is 6 or 7dg (107000 BIRMINGHAM CITY, AL to 5613900 CHEYENNE CITY, WY). FIPS_Place_ID is 4 to 5dg (7000 to 13900)
***compare with placefp (5dg) 07000 Burmingham, AL and 13900 Cheyenne, WY, or better still GEOID (used in vcdb4) 0107000 Birmingham, AL and 5613900 Cheyenne, WY
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