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US Senate party affiliatoin and votes on confirming Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court
A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.
State
State name
Senator
Senator's name
Party
Party affiliation (D
=Democrat, R
=Republican)
ConfVote
Confirmation vote (Nay
=against or Yea
=for)
StateOpinion
Percentage of state residents supporting the choice
Vote
1=for or 0=against
Data from the U.S. Senate vote on January 31, 2006 to confirm Samuel Alito to a position on the Supreme Court.
These numbers are taken from Kastellec, J.P., Lax, J.R., and Phillips, J. (2010), "Public Opinion and Senate Confirmation of Supreme Court Nominees," Journal of Politics, 72(3): 767-84. In this paper the authors used opinion polls and an advanced statistical method known as multilevel regression and poststratification to determine the StateOpinion levels.
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