{
  "alt": "Dot chart with five rows, Democrats, Democratic leaners, independents with no lean, Republican leaners and Republicans, each dot the place gap averaged over the issues with a 95% interval and a dashed line at zero. Independents with no lean have the largest dot, {fact:ind_place_mean} points, and Democratic leaners the smallest, {fact:lean_dem_place_mean} points.",
  "caption": "Independents with no lean have the largest average place gap of the five groups in point estimates, and the interval for their difference from the average of Democrats and Republicans lies above zero. Each dot is a place gap averaged over the issues, with a 95% interval.",
  "data": [
    {
      "n": 9432,
      "party_id": "Democrats",
      "place_gap": 4.48698,
      "place_gap_hi": 6.29195,
      "place_gap_lo": 2.79317
    },
    {
      "n": 2804,
      "party_id": "Democratic leaners",
      "place_gap": 3.33114,
      "place_gap_hi": 4.58868,
      "place_gap_lo": 1.97841
    },
    {
      "n": 5761,
      "party_id": "Independents (no lean)",
      "place_gap": 9.18058,
      "place_gap_hi": 10.6996,
      "place_gap_lo": 7.37156
    },
    {
      "n": 2783,
      "party_id": "Republican leaners",
      "place_gap": 6.68648,
      "place_gap_hi": 8.78164,
      "place_gap_lo": 4.57792
    },
    {
      "n": 7157,
      "party_id": "Republicans",
      "place_gap": 6.7812,
      "place_gap_hi": 8.46683,
      "place_gap_lo": 5.00494
    }
  ],
  "id": "place_gap_by_party_id",
  "notes": [
    "The tooltip shows the smallest of the two county-type groups behind each average. The place gaps of Democrats and Republicans in this figure are the same as the averages in the figure on Republican and Democratic place gaps. Intervals are 95% intervals from a bootstrap that resamples whole states; they are model based and ignore the design of the panel."
  ],
  "source": "CES cumulative common content, 2013-2021; county returns for the two-party margin; weighted (weight_cumulative)",
  "spec": {
    "hi": "place_gap_hi",
    "lo": "place_gap_lo",
    "n": "n",
    "reference": 0,
    "sort": "data",
    "x": "place_gap",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      12
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "xLabel": "Average place gap in points (deep-blue minus deep-red counties)",
    "y": "party_id"
  },
  "subtitle": "Place gap averaged over the issues, in points (deep-blue minus deep-red counties, share taking the Democratic side), by party group, with 95% intervals; CES survey years 2013 to 2021",
  "title": "The average place gap is larger among independents with no lean than among Democrats and Republicans",
  "type": "dot",
  "width": "wide"
}