American Health Care Act Polls — ahca

The raw data behind the story "Why The GOP Is So Hell-Bent On Passing An Unpopular Health Care Bill" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-the-gop-is-so-hell-bent-on-passing-an-unpopular-health-care-bill.

ahca_polls

Format

A data frame with 15 rows representing polls and 7 variables:

start: Start date of the poll.
end: End date of the poll.
pollster: The entity that conducts and collects information from the poll.
favor: The number of affirmative responses to the question at the pollster.
oppose: The number of negative responses to the question at the pollster.
url: The website associated with the polling question.
text: The polling question asked at the pollster.

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/ahca-polls/README.md

Examples

# To convert data frame to tidy data (long) format, run:
library(dplyr)
#> 
#> Attaching package: ‘dplyr’
#> The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:
#> 
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:
#> 
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(tidyr)
library(stringr)
ahca_polls_tidy <- ahca_polls %>%
  pivot_longer(-c(start, end, pollster, text, url), names_to = "opinion", values_to = "count")