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There's already a very thorough Transcript, and in the proper location for one.

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← Older revision		Revision as of 17:01, 31 March 2026
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 ::For more detail, see Poole and Rosenthal's website, voteview.com.
 A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS PARTISAN AND IDEOLOGICAL MAKEUP
 The chart width on each side corresponds to the number of seats held by two groups of parties:7 I Seats held 1;77c=13'"' Seats held by I left-leaning parties right-leaning parties (e.g. Democratic. Green) (e.g. Republican. Constitution) I
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 Politics in the first half of the 1800s was completely dominated by the issue of slavery, which was supported by poor white Southern farmers—Democrats—and opposed by the Northern Protestant intellectuals and wealthy businesspeople who formed first the Whigs and then the Republican Party.
 During this period, as during the Civil Rights era, a second DW-NOMINATE variable becomes important, and corresponds to voting behavior on regional issues. If the first variable represents the left-right variable, then during these periods the second variable could simply be thought of as representing the racism spectrum.
-The first divide in Congress was between supporters (right) and opponents (left) of the Washington Administration.
+The first divide in Congress was between supporters (right) and opponents (left) of the Washington Administration. -->
 ==Trivia==

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 ::For more detail, see Poole and Rosenthal's website, voteview.com.
 A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS PARTISAN AND IDEOLOGICAL MAKEUP
 The chart width on each side corresponds to the number of seats held by two groups of parties:7 I Seats held 1;77c=13'"' Seats held by I left-leaning parties right-leaning parties (e.g. Democratic. Green) (e.g. Republican. Constitution) I
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 Politics in the first half of the 1800s was completely dominated by the issue of slavery, which was supported by poor white Southern farmers—Democrats—and opposed by the Northern Protestant intellectuals and wealthy businesspeople who formed first the Whigs and then the Republican Party.
 During this period, as during the Civil Rights era, a second DW-NOMINATE variable becomes important, and corresponds to voting behavior on regional issues. If the first variable represents the left-right variable, then during these periods the second variable could simply be thought of as representing the racism spectrum.
-The first divide in Congress was between supporters (right) and opponents (left) of the Washington Administration. -->
+The first divide in Congress was between supporters (right) and opponents (left) of the Washington Administration.
 ==Trivia==

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	Click the date above the comic to go to the xkcd page, and there is a link to the [http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ much larger version].		Click the date above the comic to go to the xkcd page, and there is a link to the [http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ much larger version].
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−	~~== Transcript ==~~
−	~~:[Map containing the congressional and presidential outcomes since the founding of america]~~
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−	~~:Title: The United States Congress~~
−	~~:Subtitle: Partisan and ideological makeup~~
−	~~{{Please feel free to continue adding in more of the transcript}}~~

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 == Transcript ==
 :[Map containing the congressional and presidential outcomes since the founding of america]
 :The United States Congress
-:Partisan and ideological makeup
+:Title: The United States Congress
 {{Please feel free to continue adding in more of the transcript}}

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 Click the date above the comic to go to the xkcd page, and there is a link to the [http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ much larger version].
 ==Explanation==
 It appears that the (at the time) {{w|United States presidential election, 2012|upcoming 2012 election}} has put [[Randall]] into a political state of mind, as this is the second comic in a few weeks that has dealt with political history ([[1122: Electoral Precedent]]). As with that comic, this comic goes through the entire history of the {{w|Federal government of the United States|U.S. Federal Government}}. Also notably, Randall makes a number of observations that are akin to the type of observations Randall denounces in 1122 (e.g. for 1928, Randall notes that no Republican has since won the presidency without a Nixon or a Bush on the ticket). Just around the election he posted two more comics related to this: [[1130: Poll Watching]] and [[1131: Math]].

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 • PAR , SYS
 FOURTH PARTY SYSTEM
-THIRD PARTY YST
+THIRD PARTY SYSTEM
 A recession, combined with Eiesnhower Administration policies unpopular with labor unions, helped Democrats make huge Senate gains in the 1958 midterm election,
 Ronald Reagaris commanding victory over Jimmy Carter helped bring Democratic support ,r Republican Senate candidates.
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 Nconai UNIONIST
 Lincoln's election, most Southern Senate seats were declared vacant.
-SECOND PARTY YST
+SECOND PARTY SYSTEM
 Senator Henry Clay, by skillfully negotiating compromises, is said to have singlehandedly held off the Civil War for 40 years.
 Senator John C. Calhoun, with his fiery arguments that white slaveowners were the real oppressed minority, helped emcee it eventually happened.

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 * The axis for the senate is mislabelled; on the right, it goes 0-10-20-30-40-50-'''40-40'''-80.
 * This comic used to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20211215045721/https://store.xkcd.com/products/congress-poster available as a poster] in the xkcd store before it was [[Store|shut down]].
-* Double the
+* In the "Second party system" of the "senator" column, there is a text that contains the "double the" typo.
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