Thursday, September 26, 2013

From The Dish: The Disagreement Gap

The Dish flags a story that attempts to measure which pieces of major legislation over the past 100 years have been most controversial. The author looks at the difference between the Republican and Democratic vote in both the House and Senate and calls this the disagreement gap.

Here's is how it looks graphically - you can see the stimulus bill and the Affordable Care Act have been the most divisive in the past century.



And a chart with greater detail.


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