lines = 'Years Percent Type 
2  63  Democratic
3  58  Democratic
5  52  Democratic
7  46  Democratic
8  41  Democratic
1  58  Republican
2  55  Republican
4  47  Republican
6  43  Republican
7  41  Republican
8  39  Republican'
con = textConnection( lines )
DF = read.table( con, header=TRUE )
close(con)