← emily's datasets

USA Election Polls, State Polls by State Obama vs. McCain, USA, October 14th 2008

This dataset is from the website USA Election Polls. The polls for each state have be done during different time periods is displayed as an attribute. Poll are the latest poll from each state and the source varies

This section shows information about this dataset's attributes
Attributes Range Median Mean Std. Dev.
McCain's Change
 
-10  to  47
0 1.84 10.88
McCain's change in percent from last poll (negatives are gains for Obama)
Obama's Change
 
-5  to  8
0 0.78 2.56
Obama's change in percent from last poll (negatives are gains for McCain)
Obama's Lead
 
-39  to  69
5 1.33 18.97
Obama's Lead (negative values where McCain Leads)
Sub Region Text column (no statistics available)
Sub Region
State Abbreviation Text column (no statistics available)
State Abbreviation
Percentage for McCain
 
13  to  68
44 46.49 9.57
Percentage for McCain
State Code
1.00  to  56.00
29.00 28.96 15.83
State Code
Percentage for Obama
 
29  to  82
49 47.82 9.51
Percentage for Obama
Electoral Vote
3.00  to  55.00
8.00 10.55 9.58
Electoral Vote
State Name Text column (no statistics available)
State Name
Area
66.06  to  576594.10
55814.73 70323.47 86368.88
Area
State Name Text column (no statistics available)
State Name
State Code Text column (no statistics available)
State Code
McCain's Lead
 
-69  to  39
-5 -1.33 18.97
McCain's Lead (negative values represent Obama's leads)
Date of Poll Text column (no statistics available)
Date represents the mid-date of the time period of the poll