Election16: 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
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2016 presidential election and state demographic data

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 8 variables.

State: State name
Abr: Abbreviation for state name
Income: Per capita income in the state
HS: Percent high school grads
BA: Percent college grads
Adv: Percent with advanced degrees
Dem.Rep: Democratic lean - Republican lean in 2015 Gallup poll
TrumpWin: Trump won the state? (1=yes or 0=no)

This dataset contains information from all 50 states and the District of Columbia for the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It is similar to Election08 for the 2008 election.

Income data from
https://www.census.gov/search-results.html?q=per+capita+income+by+state&search.x=0 &search.y=0&search=submit&page=1&stateGeo=none&searchtype=web&cssp=SERP

2015 data via American Community Survey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educational_attainment from Bureau, U.S. Census. "2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2017-01-19.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/188969/red-states-outnumber-blue-first-time-gallup-tracking.aspx

Stat2Data documentation built on May 2, 2019, 7:25 a.m.