where they stood

Animation of Congress. For those three of you who haven’t seen it: Keith Poole‘s team at U.Houston tabulated the roll-call votes in Congress from 1879 to 1998 and did a factor analysis; the two dimensions shown in the animation are enough, they say, to ‘predict’ the vast majority of votes.

2010: New site.

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