Category: Politics
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Adult Literacy and Numeracy in Counties
Examining literacy and numeracy based on political preference.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Reports on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election
These documents have been processed with Adobe Acrobat to produce searchable text.
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Gasoline Prices
This is an interactive chart.
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Republicans Will Encourage Voting Before Election Day
This article, written by Walter Olson and published on Cato Institute, discusses a significant shift in the Republican Party’s stance on voting methods. Former President Donald Trump, who once criticized alternate voting methods as prone to fraud and urged Republicans to vote on Election Day, and the GOP are now encouraging the use of various…
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sells Misleading Ideas
This article delves into the misleading rhetoric and tactics employed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and presidential candidate. Kennedy has been known to use a method called “data dumping” where he overwhelms listeners with a barrage of numbers, acronyms, and methodologies to falsely suggest that vaccine injuries are widespread. The New York…
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Voting by Congressional District
Classifying congressional districts by density, then plotting percent voting for Donald J. Trump.
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Presidential Data Explorer Updated
Explore the economic record of presidents, starting with Harry S Truman. Updated with recent data.
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The Polity Project
The United States slipped towards dangerous anocracy, but has improved.
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Election Deniers in Kansas
Some candidates for high office in Kansas believe in the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.