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Re:Show HN: Voting Relationships in the US Senate by rbmoshe on Thursday November 14, 2013 @08:45PM (#6737173)
This algoritm pragmatically computes how far left/right a senater's polical views are by placing them in the corresponding place on the page
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Re:Show HN: Voting Relationships in the US Senate by dnautics on Friday November 15, 2013 @01:05AM (#6738009)
I am not sure this is correct.

1) How are abstentions counted? Does a senator that abstains more get pushed out towards the edge for having less connections in general?

2) If a party member votes 100% along the party line, then they will be towards the center of the blob. If a party member is less partisan in the fashion of voting WITH bipartisan consensus then that person is gets put in the center. If a party member is less partisan in the fashion of voting AGAINST bipartisan consensus then they would be on the edge far from the center.

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