Visualizing Congress

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Wed Jan 9 14:40:23 PST 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>

Nathan Newman wrote:
>And beyond the caucus, I will note that over 100 Democrats, roughly half the
>caucus (ie. the median Democrat)...

-Uh, I'm no stat whiz, but this "roughly half the caucus" would be the -half to the left of the median. That means there's half to the right, -too. So your median would be in the middle, which is where you -usually find the median.

If half the caucus plus one are for single-payer, that means the median Democrat is for single-payer. I haven't checked the most recent count of Dems to see, although it is safe to say that the median Dem supports universal health care in some form.

-- Nathan Newman

Doug



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