Votes in the US Senate on Clarence Thomas nomination for the US Supreme Court
A data frame with 100 observations on the following 6 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)
Data from the U.S. Senate vote on October 15, 1991 to confirm Clarence Thomas to a position on the Supreme Court.