Congressional Ideology since 1857 - a #Visualization

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via Christopher Ingraham, we have this interactive visualization of Ideology (and party unity) in the House from 1857 to 2011. It was created
by Christopher Ingraham. Data from Voteview.com. Inspired by work by Brian Resnick, Brian McGill and Ella Krivitchenko of the National Journal.
All together now -- this plot combines data from the party unity graph and the graph of dw-nominate scores.
The bottom line - its pretty much always sucked, it just sucks a lot harder nowadays...

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