midterms_house
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.