President's party performance and unemployment rate
Source:R/data-midterms_house.R
midterms_house.RdCovers midterm elections.
Format
A data frame with 29 observations on the following 5 variables.
- year
Year.
- potus
The president in office.
- party
President's party: Democrat or Republican.
- unemp
Unemployment rate.
- house_change
Change in House seats for the President's party.
Details
An older version of this data is at unemploy_pres.
Examples
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(midterms_house, aes(x = unemp, y = house_change)) +
geom_point()
