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Election results for the 2008 U.S. Presidential race

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• state - State name abbreviation

• stateFull - Full state name

• n_obama - Number of votes for Barack Obama

• p_obama - Proportion of votes for Barack Obama

• n_mc_cain - Number of votes for John McCain

• p_mc_cain - Proportion of votes for John McCain

• el_votes - Number of electoral votes for a state

Details

In Nebraska, 4 electoral votes went to McCain and 1 to Obama. Otherwise the electoral votes were a winner-take-all.

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Presidential Election of 2008, Electoral and Popular Vote Summary, collected on April 21, 2011 from http://www.infoplease.com/us/government/presidential-election-vote-summary.html

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