Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The 111th Congress was the most polarized ever -- in graphs

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That's from this post by political scientist Keith Poole. A bit later in the piece, he breaks the numbers down further and finds that the high level of polarization was primarily a result of Republicans being more polarized than ever before. Democrats, as you can see on the dark red line in the following graph, were pretty well within their historical norms:

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More on the methodology here.



Source: http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=0483e149bcb992583832314c80d5c51b

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