{
  "alt": "Dumbbell chart with one row for each issue, sorted by party gap. In every row the party gap, the solid dot, lies far to the right of the place gap, the open dot, and the two intervals do not touch. Party gaps run from {fact:party_gap_min} points on universal background checks to {fact:party_gap_max} points on a border wall; place gaps run from {fact:place_gap_min} to {fact:place_gap_max} points.",
  "caption": "The party gap, the solid dot, is larger than the place gap, the open dot, on every issue: the averages are {fact:party_gap_mean} and {fact:place_gap_mean} points. Whiskers are 95% intervals, and the number at the right of each row is the party gap minus the place gap.",
  "data": [
    {
      "dem_side": "Support an assault weapons ban",
      "issue": "Assault weapons ban",
      "n": 16440,
      "party_gap": 41.9231,
      "party_gap_hi": 43.8117,
      "party_gap_lo": 40.2985,
      "place_gap": 7.45708,
      "place_gap_hi": 8.97616,
      "place_gap_lo": 6.07058,
      "ratio": 5.62192,
      "survey_years": "2013 to 2021"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Support universal background checks for gun buyers",
      "issue": "Background checks",
      "n": 13375,
      "party_gap": 13.3144,
      "party_gap_hi": 14.9084,
      "party_gap_lo": 11.9903,
      "place_gap": 2.0564,
      "place_gap_hi": 3.13039,
      "place_gap_lo": 0.948073,
      "ratio": 6.47459,
      "survey_years": "2013 to 2021, not 2020"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Oppose easier concealed carry",
      "issue": "Concealed carry",
      "n": 16452,
      "party_gap": 38.7784,
      "party_gap_hi": 40.7389,
      "party_gap_lo": 37.0581,
      "place_gap": 4.75948,
      "place_gap_hi": 6.35788,
      "place_gap_lo": 3.35941,
      "ratio": 8.14762,
      "survey_years": "2013 to 2021"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Oppose more spending on border security",
      "issue": "Border security",
      "n": 13428,
      "party_gap": 40.2499,
      "party_gap_hi": 42.0192,
      "party_gap_lo": 38.6408,
      "place_gap": 5.28948,
      "place_gap_hi": 6.68359,
      "place_gap_lo": 3.66859,
      "ratio": 7.60942,
      "survey_years": "2013 to 2021, not 2018"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Support a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants",
      "issue": "Path to legal status",
      "n": 13422,
      "party_gap": 38.7389,
      "party_gap_hi": 40.3122,
      "party_gap_lo": 36.8522,
      "place_gap": 4.05459,
      "place_gap_hi": 5.8203,
      "place_gap_lo": 2.56496,
      "ratio": 9.55433,
      "survey_years": "2013 to 2021, not 2018"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Oppose spending on a border wall",
      "issue": "Border wall",
      "n": 8257,
      "party_gap": 64.1331,
      "party_gap_hi": 65.8105,
      "party_gap_lo": 62.4793,
      "place_gap": 4.14379,
      "place_gap_hi": 5.26528,
      "place_gap_lo": 2.94652,
      "ratio": 15.4769,
      "survey_years": "2017 to 2021, not 2019"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Support legal gay marriage",
      "issue": "Gay marriage",
      "n": 7161,
      "party_gap": 36.3975,
      "party_gap_hi": 39.2957,
      "party_gap_lo": 33.6467,
      "place_gap": 10.2322,
      "place_gap_hi": 13.6769,
      "place_gap_lo": 6.59333,
      "ratio": 3.55714,
      "survey_years": "2013 to 2016"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Oppose repealing the Affordable Care Act",
      "issue": "Repeal the ACA",
      "n": 16459,
      "party_gap": 57.1886,
      "party_gap_hi": 58.8063,
      "party_gap_lo": 55.8029,
      "place_gap": 4.15959,
      "place_gap_hi": 5.39953,
      "place_gap_lo": 2.83296,
      "ratio": 13.7486,
      "survey_years": "2013 to 2021"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Support letting the EPA regulate carbon dioxide",
      "issue": "EPA regulates CO2",
      "n": 15459,
      "party_gap": 44.3692,
      "party_gap_hi": 46.5455,
      "party_gap_lo": 42.2866,
      "place_gap": 5.16053,
      "place_gap_hi": 6.92055,
      "place_gap_lo": 3.47108,
      "ratio": 8.5978,
      "survey_years": "2014 to 2021"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Support always allowing abortion as a matter of choice",
      "issue": "Abortion legal",
      "n": 15818,
      "party_gap": 46.5271,
      "party_gap_hi": 48.6842,
      "party_gap_lo": 44.6967,
      "place_gap": 11.9612,
      "place_gap_hi": 14.6178,
      "place_gap_lo": 9.18167,
      "ratio": 3.88985,
      "survey_years": "2014 to 2021"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Support Medicare for All",
      "issue": "Medicare for All",
      "n": 8385,
      "party_gap": 51.3097,
      "party_gap_hi": 53.6086,
      "party_gap_lo": 49.2734,
      "place_gap": 4.22823,
      "place_gap_hi": 6.3651,
      "place_gap_lo": 1.69074,
      "ratio": 12.135,
      "survey_years": "2018 to 2021"
    },
    {
      "dem_side": "Oppose cutting legal immigration by half",
      "issue": "Cut immigration",
      "n": 7157,
      "party_gap": 44.1933,
      "party_gap_hi": 45.6515,
      "party_gap_lo": 42.6341,
      "place_gap": 4.10654,
      "place_gap_hi": 5.86782,
      "place_gap_lo": 2.48064,
      "ratio": 10.7617,
      "survey_years": "2018 to 2020"
    }
  ],
  "id": "gaps_by_issue",
  "notes": [
    "A deep county is one where the two-party presidential margin is at or beyond the cutoff stated in the chapter Party and place. The share is measured on the side of each issue that Democrats take more often, which the data table names for each question.",
    "The issues were asked in different survey years, listed in the data table, so the averages combine periods. The number in a tooltip is the smallest of the four party by county-type groups behind the row.",
    "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": {
    "hi1": "place_gap_hi",
    "hi2": "party_gap_hi",
    "label1": "Place gap",
    "label2": "Party gap",
    "lo1": "place_gap_lo",
    "lo2": "party_gap_lo",
    "sort": "desc",
    "x1": "place_gap",
    "x2": "party_gap",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      70
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "xLabel": "Gap in points (share taking the Democratic side)",
    "y": "issue"
  },
  "subtitle": "Gap in the share taking the Democratic side, in points, by issue; Democrats and Republicans in deep counties; CES survey years 2013 to 2021",
  "table": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "issue",
        "label": "Issue"
      },
      {
        "key": "dem_side",
        "label": "Democratic side of the question"
      },
      {
        "key": "survey_years",
        "label": "Survey years"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "party_gap",
        "label": "Party gap"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "party_gap_lo",
        "label": "Party gap, low"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "party_gap_hi",
        "label": "Party gap, high"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "place_gap",
        "label": "Place gap"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "place_gap_lo",
        "label": "Place gap, low"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "place_gap_hi",
        "label": "Place gap, high"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "ratio",
        "label": "Ratio"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 0,
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "n",
        "label": "Smallest group, n"
      }
    ]
  },
  "title": "On every issue the gap between parties is larger than the gap between deep-red and deep-blue counties",
  "type": "dumbbell",
  "width": "wide"
}