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The resulting IV estimates show no relationship between turnout and the winner's NOMINATE score.
Similarly, less ideological Republicans, with a DW NOMINATE score of.2 or less, voted overwhelmingly "yes".
The DW nominate score method puts legislators on a scale from -1 for most liberal to 1 for most conservative.
The people over at Voteview score each roll-call vote: -1 is most liberal, while +1 is most conservative, per Voteview's "DW nominate" score.
In this rejoinder to Richard Pildes, I report some estimates of the effect of primary election turnout on the extremity of a House member's NOMINATE score.
The most common measure of ideology in Congress is the "NOMINATE" score, developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, and the scores show a clear difference between how extreme the parties have gotten.
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There is huge movement but you see none of it in NOMINATE scores...
The president has named three dozen judicial candidates since January and is expected to nominate scores more over the next few months, aides said.
Assigned all returning members their DW-NOMINATE score from the preceding term.
Assigned all new members the average DW-NOMINATE score for their party and region.
Not every rating system is available for every candidate: those who have never served in Congress have no DW-Nominate score, for example.
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