Carter-1980-NV

[Thomas D]

Dude got 66,666 votes.


 Any thoughts?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Nothing.  If he got 666 votes, that would be one thing.

Simply put, it means nothing because he got 66,000 votes more than the "magic number".

[Ashley Biden's Diary]

Didn't the mark of the beast change to 616 a few years back?

[Podgy the Bear]

Also remarkable from that election was the overwhelming swing in Ronald Reagan's favor (+36R in 1980 and +34R in 1984 vs +4R in 1976).   

It stayed that way through the 1988 election, and then the Perot factor plus the large growth in the Hispanic population has swung it back to where the Democrats have taken 4 out 6 elections.

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Also remarkable from that election was the overwhelming swing in Ronald Reagan's favor (+36R in 1980 and +34R in 1984 vs +4R in 1976).   

It stayed that way through the 1988 election, and then the Perot factor plus the large growth in the Hispanic population has swung it back to where the Democrats have taken 4 out 6 elections.

Then in 2006, his son lost the Senate seat by 14 points.

[SingingAnalyst]

NV had somewhat of an anti-incumbent swing during 1976-1984:

1976 Carter 46% Ford 50% NOTA 2.5%
1980 Carter 27% Reagan 62.5% Anderson 7% NOTA 1.7%
1984 Mondale 32% Reagan 66% NOTA 1.4%

So it had one of the strongest anti-Carter swings 1976-80 and one of the weakest pro-Reagan swings 1980-84. BTW the NOTA vote virtually disappeared in '92, with 0.5%. I guess the NOTAs before that were literally waiting for Perot.