On October 11, 2002, the United States Senate voted 77-23 to authorize the use of military force against Iraq. This data set lists the “Ayes” and “Nays” for each Senator and some covariates.
A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.
y
a numeric vector, the recorded vote (1 if Aye, 0 if Nay)
state.abb
two letter abbreviation for each state
name
senator name, party and state, e.g., AKAKA (D HI)
rep
logical, TRUE for Republican senators
state.name
name of state
gorevote
numeric, the vote share recorded by Al Gore in the corresponding state in the 2000 Presidential election
Details
The only Republican to vote against the resolution was Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island); Democrats split 29-22 in favor of the resolution.
Source
Keith Poole, 107th Senate Roll Call Data. https://voteview.com/static/data/out/votes/S107_votes.ord The Iraq vote is vote number 617.
David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. http://uselectionatlas.org
References
Jackman, Simon. 2009. Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences. Wiley: Chichester. Example 8.3.
Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.
