Download the pres_elections.csv dataset from Slack. Read it into R into an object named elect. Use View() and dim() to explore the dataset. How many rows and columns are there? Explain the structure of the rows – what do they represent?
Create a column called dem_prop that turns the values in the democrat column into a proportion.
Create a new column in elect called rep_prop that gives the estimated proportion of the vote received by the Republican candidate, assuming only two parties.
Create an object called two_thousand that contains only the election of 2000. What was the median democratic proportion of the vote share among all states?
Subset the full dataset to only results that had a Democratic proportion about 0.5, were in the South, and happened after the 2000 election. Make a table that lists the number of times each southern state appeared in this subsetted object.