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ThomasConfirmation: US Senate Votes on Clarence Thomas Confirmation

Description

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

Arguments

Format

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)

Details

Data from the U.S. Senate vote on October 15, 1991 to confirm Clarence Thomas to a position on the Supreme Court.