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Election08: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

Description

State-by-state information from the 2008 U.S. presidential election

Arguments

Format

A dataframe with 51 observations on the following 7 variables.

State Name of the state
Abr Abbreviation for the state
Income Per capita income in the state as of 2007 (in dollars)
HS Percentage of adults with at least a high school education
BA Percentage of adults with at least a college education
Dem.Rep Difference in %Democrat and %Republican (according to 2008 Gallup survey)
ObamaWin 1= Obama (Democrat) wins state in 2008 or 0=McCain (Republican) wins

Details

This dataset contains information from all 50 states and the District of Columbia for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.