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Votes in the US Senate on Clarence Thomas nomination for the US Supreme Court

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A data frame with 100 observations on the following 7 variables.

State

State name

Senator

Senator name

Party

Party affiliation (D=Democrat or R=Republican)

ConfVote

Confirmation vote (Nay or Yea)

StateOpinion

Percentage of state residents supporting the choice

Vote

Numeric coding for 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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