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2008 Presidential Election Exit Polls by Education Levels, USA by State, November 2008

This dataset is one section of the 2008 CNN Exit Polls for the Presidential Election. This section focuses on Education. The data was retrieved from the CNN Election Center 2008 section on Exit Polls by State. The data was then formatted and joined to a shapefile of the USA states. Values of -1 represent no data available. Often, certain questions were asked of people in some states but not others so some attributes only have answers for a select number of states. All numbers represent the percentage of voters. The categories for each question are the percent of voters who ... (ex. have a high school education), that voted for Obama; for McCain; for other or did not answer; and total voters.

Attributes Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
NonWhite No College; Total 1.00 - 39.00 13.00 13.47 8.71

Percent of Non White No College

Postgraduate; McCain -1.00 - 67.00 41.00 35.08 18.99

Percent of Voters with Postgraduate Who voted for McCain

No High School; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 4.00 -1.00 -0.51 1.32

Percent of Voters with No High School Who voted for Other/No Answer

No High School; Obama -1.00 - 73.00 -1.00 8.67 23.37

Percent of Voters with No High School Who voted for Obama

Respondents 502.00 - 3350.00 1321.00 1619.75 810.52

Number of Respondents

Whites No College; Obama -1.00 - 64.00 41.00 37.31 16.16

Percent of Whites No College Who voted for Obama

College Graduate; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 5.00 2.00 1.65 1.49

Percent of Voters with College Graduate Who voted for Other/No Answer

H.S. Graduate; McCain -1.00 - 78.00 44.00 40.57 20.10

Percent of Voters with H.S. Graduate Who voted for McCain

No High School; Total 1.00 - 7.00 4.00 3.73 1.50

Percent of Voters with No High School

Are you a College Graduate? No; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 5.00 2.00 1.65 1.13

Are you a College Graduate? NoPercent of Voters who said no Who voted for Other/No Answer

Are you a College Graduate? No; Obama 4.00 - 95.00 49.00 45.41 18.32

Are you a College Graduate? No Percent of Voters who said no Who voted for Obama

College Graduate; Obama 4.00 - 92.00 45.00 42.41 18.78

Percent of Voters with College Graduate Who voted for Obama

College Graduate; Total 3.00 - 33.00 27.00 25.69 5.70

Percent of Voters with College Graduate

H.S. Graduate; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 4.00 1.00 1.10 1.43

Percent of Voters with H.S. Graduate Who voted for Other/No Answer

NonWhite College Grads; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 5.00 -1.00 0.04 1.54

Percent of NonWhite College Grads Who voted for Other/No Answer

Are you a College Graduate? No; Total 5.00 - 66.00 56.00 52.47 15.14

Are you a College Graduate? Percent of Voters who said no

Did You Attend College? No; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 5.00 2.00 1.61 1.37

Did You Attend College? NoPercent of Voters who said no Who voted for Other/No Answer

Did You Attend College? Yes; Obama 4.00 - 71.00 49.00 48.61 12.79

Did You Attend College? Yes Percent of Voters who said yes Who voted for Obama

Postgraduate; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 6.00 1.00 1.35 1.69

Percent of Voters with Postgraduate Who voted for Other/No Answer

Postgraduate; Obama -1.00 - 87.00 54.00 49.98 20.14

Percent of Voters with Postgraduate Who voted for Obama

Postgraduate; Total 1.00 - 29.00 15.00 16.27 5.14

Percent of Voters with Postgraduate

H.S. Graduate; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 74.00 47.00 42.80 19.87

Percent of Voters with H.S. Graduate Who voted for Other/No Answer

H.S. Graduate; Total 2.00 - 28.00 19.00 18.51 7.09

Percent of Voters with H.S. Graduate

No High School; McCain -1.00 - 46.00 -1.00 5.63 13.87

Percent of Voters with No High School Who voted for McCain

NonWhite No College; McCain -1.00 - 47.00 7.00 10.14 11.48

Percent of NonWhite No College Who voted for McCain

NonWhite College Grads; Obama -1.00 - 94.00 -1.00 35.29 40.44

Percent of Non-White College Grads Who voted for Obama

NonWhite College Grads; Total 1.00 - 26.00 5.00 6.92 5.76

Percent of NonWhite College Grads

White College Graduates; McCain 1.00 - 87.00 49.00 45.96 20.99

Percent of White College Graduates Who voted for McCain

Are you a College Graduate? Yes; McCain 4.00 - 69.00 46.00 43.51 16.22

Are you a College Graduate? YesPercent of Voters who said yes Who voted for McCain

Did You Attend College? No; Total 8.00 - 86.00 75.00 68.24 20.61

Did You Attend College? Percent of Voters who said no

Whites No College; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 5.00 2.00 1.57 1.24

Percent of Whites No College Who voted for Other/No Answer

NonWhite No College; Obama -1.00 - 98.00 79.00 58.35 39.23

Percent of Non-White No College Who voted for Obama

Whites No College; Total 3.00 - 62.00 38.00 36.92 17.09

Percent of Whites No College

College Graduate; McCain 4.00 - 75.00 48.00 43.96 18.25

Percent of Voters with College Graduate Who voted for McCain

State Name Text column (no statistics available)

State Name

Are you a College Graduate? Yes; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 4.00 2.00 1.51 1.45

Are you a College Graduate? Yes Percent of Voters who said yes Who voted for Other/No Answer

Are you a College Graduate? Yes; Obama 3.00 - 74.00 49.00 47.59 15.61

Are you a College Graduate? YesPercent of Voters who said yes Who voted for Obama

State Name Text column (no statistics available)

State Name

NonWhite College Grads; McCain -1.00 - 41.00 -1.00 8.86 12.38

Percent of Non-White College Grads Who voted for McCain

Are you a College Graduate? Yes; Total 4.00 - 58.00 42.00 40.47 12.25

Are you a College Graduate? Percent of Voters who said yes

Did You Attend College? NoPercent of Voters who said no Who voted for Other/No Answer -1.00 - 4.00 1.00 1.31 1.48

Did You Attend College? No Percent of Voters who said no Who voted for Other/No Answer

Did You Attend College? No; Obama -1.00 - 99.00 52.00 47.39 20.02

Did You Attend College? No Percent of Voters who said no Who voted for Obama

Did You Attend College? No; Total 2.00 - 36.00 24.00 22.94 8.44

Did You Attend College? Percent of Voters who said no

Did You Attend College? Yes; McCain 4.00 - 67.00 44.00 42.76 16.50

Did You Attend College? Yes Percent of Voters who said yes Who voted for McCain

Some College; McCain 3.00 - 68.00 46.00 42.67 18.64

Percent of Voters with Some College Who voted for McCain

White College Graduates; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 4.00 2.00 1.63 1.47

Percent of White College Graduates Who voted for Other/No Answer

Are you a College Graduate? No; McCain 4.00 - 72.00 45.00 44.39 14.96

Are you a College Graduate? No Percent of Voters who said no Who voted for McCain

NonWhite No College; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 5.00 -1.00 0.14 1.43

Percent of Non-White No College Who voted for Other/No Answer

Whites No College; McCain -1.00 - 89.00 55.00 54.24 17.33

Percent of Whites No College Who voted for McCain

White College Graduates; Obama 5.00 - 88.00 44.00 44.67 16.94

Percent of White College Graduates Who voted for Obama

White College Graduates; Total 2.00 - 46.00 32.00 28.33 13.68

Percent of White College Graduates

Did You Attend College? No; McCain -1.00 - 78.00 43.00 39.75 18.83

Did You Attend College? NoPercent of Voters who said no Who voted for McCain

Some College; Other/No Answer -1.00 - 6.00 2.00 1.71 1.20

Percent of Voters with Some College Who voted for Other/No Answer

Some College; Obama 4.00 - 91.00 49.00 45.51 17.28

Percent of Voters with Some College Who voted for Obama

Some College; Total 3.00 - 43.00 31.00 29.49 8.90

Percent of Voters with Some College