Basic Examples (3) 

Get polling data for the 1976 US presidential election from fivethirtyeight.com:

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Retrieve polling data for the 2020 election cycle:

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Get all polling data:

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See the included elections dates:

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See the number of statewide averages for each state or region:

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Scope (3) 

Use a DateObject to specify the date:

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Get data for two elections:

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Get all polling data without the current election cycle using "Historic":

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Applications (2) 

Select data from just one election:

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See the candidates:

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Get the last result for each state:

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Calculate the estimated difference in support between the two candidates:

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Calculate timeline plots for each state:

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Create a map of the support difference which shows the timelines when hovered:

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Get data for another election:

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Create time series data for each state:

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Get the difference in support between the top two candidates over time for each state with over two hundred estimates:

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Create a list of TimeSeries with samples over the smallest common range:

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Calculate the correlations between states:

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See the results:

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Visualize it:

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Possible Issues (3) 

The 2020 data includes numbers adjusted for convention bounces:

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The bounce-adjusted numbers differ considerably from the standard average:

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Use only non-bounce-adjusted values instead:

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