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.FN votes
.TL
votes: Votes for Republican Candidate in Presidential Elections
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.AG repub
percent of votes given to republican candidate in
presidential elections from 1856 to 1976.  Rows represent
the 50 states (See dataset `state.'), and columns the 31
elections.
.AG year
year of each election (corresponds to columns of `repub').
.PP
Contains missing values (NAs) for years prior to statehood.
.SH SOURCE
S. Peterson,
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A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections,
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., New York, 1973.
Republished by permission.
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Data from 1964 to 1976 is from R. M. Scammon,
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American Votes 12,
Congressional Quarterly.
Republished by permission of Richard M. Scammon,
Editor, Elections Research Center.
.KW dataset
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