<2.5% = orange
>2.5% = white
So why do these not match?
23/4
Jul-1966
2.64%
31/5
Jul-1968
2.73%
6/6
Apr-1975
2.93%
10/7
Apr-1976
2.98%
12/9
Oct-1976
2.86%
62/20
Jul-1979
2.88%
38/18
Jan-1987
2.63%
47/21
Apr-1989
2.63%
48/22
Jul-1989
2.85%
55/28
Apr-1991
2.60%
My first guess was that the break should have been stated as 3%. But wait!
79/30
Oct-1995
2.93%
80/30
Jan-1996
2.82%
87/30
Oct-1997
2.95%
89/30
Apr-1998
2.65%
66/34
Jan-2002
2.72%
75/41
Oct-2004
2.52%
77/41
Apr-2005
2.78%
81/44
Apr-2006
2.65%
89/50
Apr-2008
2.80%
Looks like the criteria changed somewhere in the early '90s.
Fortunately, the bias doesn't favor the Democrats much. (3 D unfairly blamed vs. 7 R, or 4 D unfairly credited vs. 5 R, makes an overall bias of 11 to 8 in favor of Democrats, I believe, but I may be wrong.) I'm glad I found this mistake, because someone else could have potentially blown it out of proportion. (A difference of 3 [edit: effectively 6 due to swing?] out of [edit: ~270?])
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