US Senate Votes on Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court

Description

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

Format

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

Details

Data from the U.S. Senate vote on January 31, 2006 to confirm Samuel Alito to a position on the Supreme Court.

Source

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.