Tools for Acquiring and Analyzing Political Data

Documentation for package ‘politicaldata’ version 0.1.3

cap_get_mip	Download the Comparative Agenda Project's dataset of responses to Gallup's Most Important Problem question, coded by CAP major topic
cap_major_topics	Major topic codes from the Comparative Agendas Project
cap_subtopics	Subtopic codes from the Comparative Agendas Project
get_house_nominate	Get DW-nominate Scores for members of the U.S. House
get_senate_nominate	Get DW-nominate Scores for members of the U.S. Senate
house_116	DW-NOMINATE scores for the 116th House
house_results	US House election results from 1976 to 2018
pres_results	State-by-state US presidential election results from 1976 to 2016
pres_results_by_cd	Presidential election by congressional district
senate_116	DW-NOMINATE scores for the Senators of the 116th Congress
trump_approval_polls_538	Download FiveThirtyEight's dataset of Donald Trump's job approval polling
us_pres_polls_history	Every presidential general election poll from 1980 through 2016