midterms_house {openintro}

President's party performance and unemployment rate

Description

Covers midterm elections.

Usage

midterms_house

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.

Source

Wikipedia.

Examples

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(midterms_house, aes(x = unemp, y = house_change)) +
  geom_point()