1 Mad Libs

There were 219 respondents who supported the Democratic candidate.

There were 190 more respondents who favored the Republican candidate than who were Undecided.

There are two gender variables (gender and gender_combined). There are 10 individuals for whom these variables have different values.

There are 28 respondents listed as “White” under race_eth who are not listed as “White” under file_race_black.

The first response of Rep came 11 minutes (rounded to the nearest minute) before the first response of Dem.

2 Distribution of Votes Based on Race

Polling Results in North Carolina 9th Congressional District
Democrat Republican Undecided
White 33% 58% 6%
Black 86% 3% 8%
Hispanic 45% 48% 7%
Asian 37% 63% 0%
Other 49% 30% 20%
Data from The New York Times Upshot

3 Education vs Turnout Weights

4 Race, Gender vs Voting Republican

The purpose of this plot is to study whether gender was a key factor of voting in the 9th District. However, it appears that while race playaed a great role, except for Hispanic women who were somewhat less likely to vote Republican than Hispanic men, other races showed insignificant gender-based difference.

This is interesting because it studies whether within the same racial background, gender could swing votes, but we find that it did not do so.