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

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A dataframe with 51 observations on the following 8 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

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State income data from: Census Bureau Table 659. Personal Income Per Capita (in 2007)
High school data from: U.S. Census Bureau, 1990 Census of Population,
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d08/tables/dt08_011.asp
College data from: Census Bureau Table 225. Educational Attainment by State (in 2007)
% Democrat and %Republican:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/114016/state-states-political-party-affiliation.aspx#1

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/2008_U_S.csv")

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