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JoeyJoeJoe
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« on: August 03, 2009, 12:20:27 PM »
The country was also trending GOP in the mid/late 70s.  Watergate, and the fact that Carter was from the Deep South, temporarily messed up the political trends in 1976.  The West was particularly moving to the right, which became even more obvious in 1980.
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« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2009, 07:24:16 PM »


Wrong. California only trended GOP in 1980 because of home state effect, and then West coast heavily trended dem during all the period.
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I was referring to the mountain west, not the west coast.  Republicans also did well on the west coast in 1980 because the election was called for Reagan before polls closed in CA, OR, and WA.
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