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polls_us_election_2016: Fivethirtyeight 2016 Poll Data

Description

Poll results from US 2016 presidential elections aggregated from HuffPost Pollster, RealClearPolitics, polling firms and news reports. The original csv file is here: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/general-model/president_general_polls_2016.csv. The dataset also includes election results (popular vote) and electoral college votes in results_us_election_2016.

Usage

data(polls_us_election_2016)

Format

An object of class "data.frame".

Details

• state. State in which poll was taken. `U.S` is for national polls.

• startdate. Poll's start date.

• enddate. Poll's end date.

• pollster. Pollster conducting the poll.

• grade. Grade assigned by fivethirtyeight to pollster.

• samplesize. Sample size.

• population. Type of population being polled.

• rawpoll_clinton. Percentage for Hillary Clinton.

• rawpoll_trump. Percentage for Donald Trump

• rawpoll_johnson. Percentage for Gary Johnson

• rawpoll_mcmullin. Percentage for Evan McMullin.

• adjpoll_clinton. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Hillary Clinton.

• ajdpoll_trump. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Donald Trump

• adjpoll_johnson. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Gary Johnson

• adjpoll_mcmullin. Fivethirtyeight adjusted percentage for Evan McMullin.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(polls_us_election_2016)
head(polls_us_election_2016)
# }