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These lawmakers might want to consider crossing the aisle in the 115th Congress

April 18, 2017 | Politics

We’ll start with this map of states colored based on an analysis of 2012 and 2016 presidential election results called the Partisan Voter Index (PVI).

Next, let’s line those states up from most Democratic to most Republican. They range from solidly Democratic Hawaii on the left, all the way to safely Republican Wyoming on the right. In recent decades, many have shifted further into one camp or the other.

Now let’s look at the political affiliation of each state’s two senators  Democratic, independent and Republican.

Next, we’ll measure senators’ ideologies, from liberal to conservative, using a measure called DW-Nominate.

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