Political Discourse on Reddit (2016–2024): A Curated Dataset for Public Opinion and Engagement Analysis

This dataset contains 19,336 Reddit submissions and comments from six political subreddits collected between Nov 8, 2016, and July 11, 2024. Subreddits- r/politics- r/news- r/PoliticalDiscussion- r/NeutralPolitics- r/democrats- r/Republican Columns- `type`: submission or comment- `score`: Reddit score (upvotes)- `created`: timestamp (ISO 8601)- `body`: original post/comment text- `subreddit`: name of subreddit- `comment_id`: unique Reddit ID (null for submissions)- `clean_body`: preprocessed version for NLP (lowercased, stripped, stopwords removed) LicenseThis dataset contains public Reddit data shared under Reddit's API Terms of Use.