Fa·vor·it·ism, n.
One image is worth a thousand words
This is a plot showing how often senators vote in line with Trump as a function of Trump’s margin in their states. Each point’s color also indicates the Senator’s party.
![](https://lente.dev/posts/favoritism/plot.webp)
Data collected and maintained by FiveThirtyEight at Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump. Extracted with an R package I created.
You can also see the full dataset on Kaggle.