electoral

Polls and election results from the 2012 US Election

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electoral function

A list with two data frames:
polls is a data frame of 51 rows and 4 variables<dl>
<dt>State</dt>
<dd>State name</dd><dt>Electoral.vote</dt>
<dd>Number of electoral votes in the 2012 election</dd><dt>Margin</dt>
<dd>Margin between the parties with the highest number of votes and second highest number of votes.
These margins are based on polls.</dd><dt>Democrat</dt>
<dd>logical vector True, if the democratic party is the majority party in this state.</dd>
</dl>`election` is a data frame of 51 rows and 5 variables<dl>
<dt>State</dt>
<dd>State name</dd><dt>Candidate</dt>
<dd>character string of the winner: Romney or Obama</dd><dt>Electoral.vote</dt>
<dd>Number of electoral votes in the 2012 election</dd><dt>Margin</dt>
<dd>Margin between the parties with the highest number of votes and second highest number of votes.
These margins are based on the actual election outcome</dd><dt>Democrat</dt>
<dd>logical vector True, if the democratic party is the majority party in this state.</dd>
</dl>

Format

Polls and election results from the 2012 US Election — electoral

A list with two data frames:
polls is a data frame of 51 rows and 4 variables<dl>
<dt>State</dt>
<dd>State name</dd>

<dt>Electoral.vote</dt>
<dd>Number of electoral votes in the 2012 election</dd>

<dt>Margin</dt>
<dd>Margin between the parties with the highest number of votes and second highest number of votes.
These margins are based on polls.</dd>

<dt>Democrat</dt>
<dd>logical vector True, if the democratic party is the majority party in this state.</dd>


</dl>`election` is a data frame of 51 rows and 5 variables<dl>
<dt>State</dt>
<dd>State name</dd>

<dt>Candidate</dt>
<dd>character string of the winner: Romney or Obama</dd>

<dt>Electoral.vote</dt>
<dd>Number of electoral votes in the 2012 election</dd>

<dt>Margin</dt>
<dd>Margin between the parties with the highest number of votes and second highest number of votes.
These margins are based on the actual election outcome</dd>

<dt>Democrat</dt>
<dd>logical vector True, if the democratic party is the majority party in this state.</dd>


</dl>

electoral: Polls and election results from the 2012 US Election

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