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US Senate Votes on Clarence Thomas Confirmation
Description
Votes in the US Senate on Clarence Thomas nomination for the US Supreme Court
Format
A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 variables.
State
State name
Senator
Senator name
Party
Party affiliation (
D
=Democrat orR
=Republican)ConfVote
Confirmation vote (
Nay
orYea
)StateOpinion
Percentage of state residents supporting the choice
Vote
Numeric coding for vote (
1
=for or0
=against)
Details
Data from the U.S. Senate vote on October 15, 1991 to confirm Clarence Thomas 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.