Polls and election results from the 2012 US Election

Format

A list with two data frames: polls is a data frame of 51 rows and 4 variables

State

State name

Electoral.vote

Number of electoral votes in the 2012 election

Margin

Margin between the parties with the highest number of votes and second highest number of votes. These margins are based on polls.

Democrat

logical vector True, if the democratic party is the majority party in this state.

`election` is a data frame of 51 rows and 5 variables

State

State name

Candidate

character string of the winner: Romney or Obama

Electoral.vote

Number of electoral votes in the 2012 election

Margin

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

Democrat

logical vector True, if the democratic party is the majority party in this state.