{
  "alt": "Dot chart with one row for each issue and an interval on each dot, in the row order of the first figure (largest party gap first), with a dashed line for equal gaps near the left edge. Every dot and every interval lies to the right of that line. Legal gay marriage and abortion have the smallest ratios, {fact:gay_ratio} and {fact:abort_ratio}; the border wall has the largest, {fact:wall_ratio}, and Medicare for All has the widest interval, which reaches furthest to the right.",
  "caption": "The party gap is larger than the place gap on every issue, by a ratio from {fact:ratio_min} on legal gay marriage to {fact:ratio_max} on the border wall (point estimates). The median across issues is {fact:ratio_median} and the ratio of the average gaps is {fact:ratio_means}. Each dot is the party gap on one issue divided by its place gap, and the dashed line marks equal gaps.",
  "data": [
    {
      "issue": "Border wall",
      "n": 8257,
      "ratio": 15.4769,
      "ratio_hi": 21.9944,
      "ratio_lo": 12.037
    },
    {
      "issue": "Repeal the ACA",
      "n": 16459,
      "ratio": 13.7486,
      "ratio_hi": 20.2203,
      "ratio_lo": 10.6742
    },
    {
      "issue": "Medicare for All",
      "n": 8385,
      "ratio": 12.135,
      "ratio_hi": 31.415,
      "ratio_lo": 7.85692
    },
    {
      "issue": "Abortion legal",
      "n": 15818,
      "ratio": 3.88985,
      "ratio_hi": 5.15754,
      "ratio_lo": 3.11513
    },
    {
      "issue": "EPA regulates CO2",
      "n": 15459,
      "ratio": 8.5978,
      "ratio_hi": 13.0695,
      "ratio_lo": 6.22486
    },
    {
      "issue": "Cut immigration",
      "n": 7157,
      "ratio": 10.7617,
      "ratio_hi": 17.6498,
      "ratio_lo": 7.42803
    },
    {
      "issue": "Assault weapons ban",
      "n": 16440,
      "ratio": 5.62192,
      "ratio_hi": 7.0859,
      "ratio_lo": 4.55153
    },
    {
      "issue": "Border security",
      "n": 13428,
      "ratio": 7.60942,
      "ratio_hi": 10.8546,
      "ratio_lo": 6.01833
    },
    {
      "issue": "Concealed carry",
      "n": 16452,
      "ratio": 8.14762,
      "ratio_hi": 11.5866,
      "ratio_lo": 6.076
    },
    {
      "issue": "Path to legal status",
      "n": 13422,
      "ratio": 9.55433,
      "ratio_hi": 15.4281,
      "ratio_lo": 6.43158
    },
    {
      "issue": "Gay marriage",
      "n": 7161,
      "ratio": 3.55714,
      "ratio_hi": 5.61609,
      "ratio_lo": 2.63493
    },
    {
      "issue": "Background checks",
      "n": 13375,
      "ratio": 6.47459,
      "ratio_hi": 14.1221,
      "ratio_lo": 4.22509
    }
  ],
  "id": "ratio_by_issue",
  "notes": [
    "The number in a tooltip is the smallest of the four party by county-type groups behind the ratio. The interval is skewed to the right where the place gap is small. The intervals for the three largest ratios overlap, and with the 2014 answers to the ACA question dropped instead of reversed, repeal of the ACA has the largest ratio.",
    "Ratios are computed from unrounded gaps, so a ratio can differ in its last digit from the quotient of the gaps as printed.",
    "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": "ratio_hi",
    "lo": "ratio_lo",
    "n": "n",
    "reference": 1,
    "referenceLabel": "Equal gaps",
    "sort": "data",
    "x": "ratio",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      35
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "xLabel": "Party gap divided by place gap",
    "y": "issue"
  },
  "subtitle": "Party gap divided by place gap, by issue, with 95% intervals; Democrats and Republicans in deep counties; CES survey years 2013 to 2021",
  "title": "The party gap is between {fact:ratio_min} and {fact:ratio_max} times the place gap, depending on the issue",
  "type": "dot",
  "width": "wide"
}