Chris Keller chrislkeller

On Oct. 6, 2018, the U.S Senate on Saturday approved Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court with a 50-48-1 vote, the narrowest margin for a confirmation vote in more than 130 years.

Kavanaugh's vote of 50-48-1 was 51.02%. Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) was attending his daughter's wedding Saturday, and with Kavanaugh having enough other votes to win confirmation, Daines did not return to Washington for the vote. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who had planned to vote against Kavanaugh, instead voted “present” as a courtesy to Daines.

This dataset was used as the basis for this piece in the L.A. Times:

I put this dataset together from a variety of sources, including:

NOTE: I'll work at fleshing this out a bit better

GOAL: Retrieve, catalog and display a daily record of voter registration figures in Orange County because a spokesperson for the registrar's office said they are unable to provide the figures.

TO PULL THIS OFF:

Determine when the figures are updated each day
- HOW: Phone conversation with registrar, reporter
Navigate to the O.C. URL that contains the daily figures
Create a scheduler

	# LICENSE: public domain

	def calculate_initial_compass_bearing(pointA, pointB):
	"""
	Calculates the bearing between two points.

	The formulae used is the following:
	θ = atan2(sin(Δlong).cos(lat2),
	cos(lat1).sin(lat2) − sin(lat1).cos(lat2).cos(Δlong))

	import smtplib
	from email.message import EmailMessage
	import csv
	import logging

	logger = logging.getLogger("root")
	logging.basicConfig(
	format="\033[1;36m%(levelname)s: %(filename)s (def %(funcName)s %(lineno)s): \033[1;37m %(message)s",
	level=logging.DEBUG
	)

	#! /usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	import urllib.request
	import json
	import datetime

	timestamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S")

	file_output = '{0}-daily-data.json'.format(timestamp)

	[{
	"name": "Bernalillo",
	"endDate": "2020-09-01",
	"positivityRate": 2.1,
	"casesPer100k": 4.8
	}, {
	"name": "Catron",
	"endDate": "2020-09-01",
	"positivityRate": 0,
	"casesPer100k": 0

	report_date,report_type,County,Eligible,Total Registered,Republican,Democratic,No Party Preference,American Independent,Americans Elect,Declined to State,Green,Libertarian,Miscellaneous,Natural Law,Other,Peace and Freedom,Reform,Unknown
	2001-10-02,154 day,Alameda,944546.0,668305.0,133404.0,377745.0,,10902.0,,115770.0,14219.0,3458.0,8819.0,2325.0,,,1663.0,
	2001-10-02,154 day,Alpine,939.0,777.0,312.0,271.0,,25.0,,146.0,5.0,7.0,4.0,1.0,,,6.0,
	2001-10-02,154 day,Amador,24118.0,18615.0,8355.0,7352.0,,515.0,,1761.0,131.0,132.0,244.0,14.0,,,111.0,
	2001-10-02,154 day,Butte,150308.0,112001.0,47518.0,41041.0,,3116.0,,15714.0,2217.0,802.0,1211.0,74.0,,,308.0,
	2001-10-02,154 day,Calaveras,31480.0,24816.0,11029.0,9277.0,,646.0,,2960.0,239.0,375.0,120.0,43.0,,,127.0,
	2001-10-02,154 day,Colusa,10756.0,7509.0,3347.0,3044.0,,200.0,,813.0,17.0,37.0,31.0,2.0,,,18.0,
	2001-10-02,154 day,Contra Costa,651279.0,476935.0,154532.0,235612.0,,8349.0,,51760.0,4148.0,2282.0,17391.0,1064.0,,,1797.0,
	2001-10-02,154 day,Del Norte,16754.0,126