Description

This data set contains the vote counts by county in Florida for Buchanan and for four other presidential candidates in 2000, along with the total vote counts in 2000, the presidential vote counts for three presidential candidates in 1996, the vote count for Buchanan in his only other campaign in Florida—the 1996 Republican primary, the registration in Buchanan's Reform party and the total political party registration in the county.

Usage

Format

A data frame with 67 observations on the following 13 variables.

County

a character vector indicating the county

Buchanan2000

votes cast for Buchanan in 2000 presidential election

Gore2000

votes cast for Gore in 2000 presidential election

Bush2000

votes cast for Bush in 2000 presidential election

Nader2000

votes cast for Nader in 2000 presidential election

Browne2000

votes cast for Browne in 2000 presidential election

Total2000

total vostes cast in 2000 presidential election

Clinton96

votes cast for Clinton in 1996 presidential election

Dole96

votes cast for Dole in 1996 presidential election

Perot96

votes cast for Perot in 1996 presidential election

Buchanan96p

votes cast for Buchanan in 1996 Republican primary

ReformReg

the registration in Buchanan's Reform party

TotalReg

the total political party registration

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

See Also

ex0825

Examples