Trust, tribalism and tweets: has political polarization made science a “wedge issue”?

Helmuth, Brian; Gouhier, Tarik C.; Scyphers, Steven; Mocarski, Jennifer

doi:10.1186/s40665-016-0018-z

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Table 7 Total number of Twitter accounts followed by each Senator (as of February 2015) and proportion categorized as Science, Politics, Media or Other

From: Trust, tribalism and tweets: has political polarization made science a “wedge issue”?

Last Name	Party	Science	Politics	Media	Other	Total
Alexander^a,b	R	0.000	0.154	0.076	0.770	409
Ayotte^a,b	R	0.002	0.054	0.015	0.928	1492
Barrasso	R	0.004	0.156	0.081	0.759	456
Bennet^a,b	D	0.024	0.337	0.000	0.639	83
Blumenthal^a,b	D	0.014	0.086	0.034	0.866	801
Blunt	R	0.000	0.009	0.004	0.987	6799
Boozman	R	0.006	0.064	0.013	0.917	543
Boxer^a,b	D	0.026	0.553	0.009	0.412	114
Brown^a,b	D	0.023	0.636	0.000	0.341	44
Burr	R	0.000	0.006	0.004	0.990	3358
Cantwell^a,b	D	0.000	0.002	0.002	0.997	579
Capito	R	0.002	0.041	0.042	0.916	935
Cardin^a,b	D	0.023	0.137	0.046	0.795	263
Carper^a,b	D	0.020	0.126	0.024	0.830	493
Casey^a,b	D	0.024	0.277	0.051	0.648	412
Coats	R	0.000	0.108	0.039	0.853	619
Cochran	R	0.025	0.113	0.020	0.842	488
Collins^a,b	R	0.005	0.119	0.042	0.833	929
Coons^a,b	D	0.000	0.035	0.004	0.961	2108
Corker^b	R	0.002	0.121	0.078	0.799	447
Cotton	R	0.006	0.154	0.025	0.815	356
Crapo	R	0.014	0.259	0.021	0.706	436
Cruz	R	0.000	0.010	0.002	0.988	7694
Daines	R	0.004	0.106	0.013	0.877	527
Donnelly^a,b	D	0.004	0.035	0.007	0.954	283
Durbin^a,b	D	0.011	0.061	0.041	0.887	1605
Enzi	R	0.002	0.233	0.035	0.730	514
Ernst	R	0.000	0.011	0.000	0.989	89
Feinstein^a,b	D	0.023	0.445	0.102	0.430	128
Fischer	R	0.000	0.773	0.008	0.220	132
Flake^b	R	0.000	0.038	0.014	0.947	208
Gardner	R	0.002	0.093	0.039	0.867	646
Gillibrand^a,b	D	0.031	0.165	0.021	0.783	419
Graham^a,b	R	0.000	0.024	0.009	0.967	2186
Grassley	R	0.000	0.003	0.001	0.996	14559
Hatch^b	R	0.000	0.166	0.046	0.788	151
Heinrich^a,b	D	0.040	0.360	0.040	0.560	25
Heitkamp^a,b	D	0.005	0.055	0.021	0.917	422
Heller^b	R	0.004	0.031	0.016	0.949	4934
Hirono^a,b	D	0.028	0.063	0.042	0.866	1185
Hoeven	R	0.000	0.142	0.071	0.787	409
Inhofe	R	0.003	0.050	0.024	0.923	1370
Isakson	R	0.000	0.168	0.077	0.755	429
Johnson	R	0.000	0.226	0.066	0.708	106
Kaine^a,b	D	0.039	0.376	0.059	0.527	205
King^a,b	I	0.011	0.252	0.094	0.644	449
Kirk^a,b	R	0.003	0.042	0.031	0.924	1852
Lankford	R	0.002	0.236	0.046	0.716	483
Leahy^a,b	D	0.000	0.263	0.053	0.684	76
Lee	R	0.000	0.045	0.010	0.945	2361
Manchin^a,b	D	0.010	0.183	0.061	0.739	624
Markey^a,b	D	0.104	0.114	0.114	0.668	193
McCain^b	R	0.000	0.113	0.099	0.788	335
McCaskill^a,b	D	0.008	0.060	0.046	0.886	1434
McConnell	R	0.000	0.019	0.000	0.981	266
Menendez^a,b	D	0.014	0.157	0.049	0.780	586
Merkley^a,b	D	0.011	0.282	0.080	0.626	174
Mikulski^a,b	D	0.000	0.486	0.000	0.514	35
Moran	R	0.003	0.031	0.022	0.945	2977
Murkowski^b	R	0.009	0.251	0.037	0.704	459
Murphy^a,b	D	0.000	0.128	0.016	0.856	125
Murray^a,b	D	0.010	0.056	0.030	0.904	2171
Nelson^a,b	D	0.080	0.010	0.060	0.850	100
Paul^b	R	0.000	0.165	0.090	0.745	357
Perdue	R	0.000	0.008	0.000	0.992	2868
Peters^a,b	D	0.009	0.070	0.029	0.893	345
Portman^b	R	0.000	0.014	0.020	0.967	1613
Reed^a,b	D	0.000	0.733	0.000	0.267	15
Reid^a,b	D	0.039	0.340	0.013	0.608	153
Risch	R	0.023	0.535	0.000	0.442	43
Roberts	R	0.003	0.096	0.043	0.858	697
Rounds^b	R	0.000	0.316	0.045	0.639	155
Rubio	R	0.000	0.001	0.002	0.997	2726
Sanders^a,b	I	0.008	0.033	0.045	0.914	1688
Schatz^a,b	D	0.002	0.012	0.004	0.982	1337
Scott	R	0.000	0.042	0.009	0.948	2784
Sessions	R	0.000	0.069	0.088	0.843	102
Shaheen^a,b	D	0.000	0.001	0.001	0.998	3317
Shelby	R	0.000	0.250	0.033	0.717	244
Stabenow^a,b	D	0.006	0.030	0.018	0.946	2298
Tester^a,b	D	0.007	0.134	0.027	0.833	754
Thune	R	0.003	0.141	0.052	0.804	306
Toomey	R	0.001	0.091	0.026	0.882	871
Udall^a,b	D	0.000	0.400	0.000	0.600	5
Vitter	R	0.001	0.013	0.009	0.976	6175
Warren^a,b	D	0.000	0.336	0.004	0.660	238
Whitehouse^a,b	D	0.026	0.037	0.015	0.921	1371
Wicker	R	0.011	0.191	0.046	0.752	282
Wyden^a,b	D	0.017	0.057	0.030	0.896	299

Republican senators who crossed party lines to vote “yea” on the ^aSchatz and/or ^bHoeven amendments are indicated

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