So, there is a Wikipedia list which shows you the current political party strength in every state in these United States. I downloaded this into a Jupyter notebook today and did some Python magic on it this morning to start to understand what is really going on with the partisan spread in the United States. …
Monthly Archives: April 2020
It’s the courts, Stupid!
Yesterday a bunch of Bernie Bros got Souter trending on Twitter, claiming that if Joe Biden is elected we will get a conservative Supreme court Justice. Let’s get some detail on that one: Nominee Year/President Vote Biden’s vote John Paul Stevens 1975, Ford 98-0 Yea Sandra Day O’Connor 1981, Reagan 99-0 Yea William Rehnquist 1986, …