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US Senate party affiliatoin and votes on confirming Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court

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A data frame with 100 observations on the following 7 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

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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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