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title: "Bartels Replication"
author: "Jack Reilly"
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## Figure 1

What follows are three replications of Bartels, Figure 1: the original, one with expanded years, and one with expanded years and midterms.

### Bartels Original

![Original](figures/bartels1_1original.pdf){fig-align="center" width="70%"}

### Bartels Extended

![Extended](figures/bartels1_2expanded.pdf){fig-align="center" width="70%"}

### Bartels Extended, with Midterms

![Extended, With Midterms](figures/bartels1_4midterms_expanded.pdf){fig-align="center" width="70%"}

## Figure 2

What follows are three replications of Bartels, Figure 2: the original, one with expanded years, and one with expanded years and midterms.


![Original](figures/bartels2_1original.pdf){fig-align="center" width="70%"}

![Extended](figures/bartels2_2expanded.pdf){fig-align="center" width="70%"}

![Extended, With Midterms](figures/bartels2_4midterms_expanded.pdf){fig-align="center" width="70%"}

1. Many things were very tricky.

2. While initially falling, the number of strong identifiers has increased significantly in recent years.

3. Bartels' initial finding is accurate, but the years since illustrate a notably different increased patterns of partisanship.

4. The relationship looks a little less clear, as there is a little more noise, but does not substantively change.