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Obama vs. McCain
Description
State-by-state voting information in the 2008 US presidential election, along with contextual information on income, unemployment, ethnicity and religion.
Format
A data frame with 52 observations (one for each US state) and the following columns.
- State
The name of the US state.
- Region
The US Federal region.
- Obama
Percentage of voters who voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
- McCain
Percentage of voters who voted for John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
- Turnout
Percentage of people who voted in the 2008 presidential election.
- Unemployment
Percentage of people who are unemployed.
- Income
Mean annual income in US dollars.
- Population
Number of people living in the state.
- Catholic
Percentage of people identifying as Catholic.
- Protestant
Percentage of people identifying as Protestant.
- Other
Percentage of people identifying as religious, but not Catholic or Protestant.
- Non.religious
Percentage of people identifying as non-religious.
- Black
Percentage of people identifying as black.
- Latino
Percentage of people identifying as Latino.
- Urbanization
Percentage of people living in an urban area.
Note
Religious identification data are not available for Alaska and Hawaii. The totals of these columns is generally less than 100, since some people didn't give an answer. The District of Columbia is included, even though it isn't a state. The dataset is not guaranteed to be error free. Please double check the data if you want to use it for something serious.
References
This dataset was kindly compiled and provided by Edwin Thoen edwinthoen@hotmail.com.
The voting information came from http://www.uselectionatlas.org/, extracted on 2011-12-09.
The ethnicity, income and urbanisation information came from http://quickfacts.census.gov, extracted on 2011-12-09.
The unemployment information came from http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000, extracted 2011-12-09.
The religious information came from Table 12 of the American Religious Identification Survey 2008. http://commons.trincoll.edu/aris/files/2011/08/ARIS_Report_2008.pdf.