Pew Research poll on government approval ratings

The poll's focus is on Obama and then Democrats and Republicans in Congress.

Usage

gov_poll

Format

A data frame with 4223 observations on the following 2 variables.

eval

a factor with levels Democrats Obama Republicans

Source

See the Pew Research website: www.people-press.org/2012/03/14/romney-leads-gop-contest-trails-in- matchup-with-obama. The counts in Table 6.19 are approximate.

Examples

gov_poll
#> # A tibble: 4,223 × 2
#>    poll    eval 
#>    <fct>   <fct>
#>  1 approve Obama
#>  2 approve Obama
#>  3 approve Obama
#>  4 approve Obama
#>  5 approve Obama
#>  6 approve Obama
#>  7 approve Obama
#>  8 approve Obama
#>  9 approve Obama
#> 10 approve Obama
#> # ℹ 4,213 more rows