twenty42
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« on: September 19, 2018, 04:16:23 PM » |
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Did the idea of "swing states," and for that matter "lean/likely/safe" states, always dominate presidential elections, or did this language come to popularity with the 2000 election?
I'm an avid reader of old newspapers, especially old election coverage. I notice that before 2000 there was considerably less talk about states and which ones were important, and electoral map projections weren't printed until very late into the election season. I'd think with the nature of our electoral system that state polling and projections would've always been super-important, but the news of the old days really didn't seem to cover it too much. Were presidential elections just a lot more national back then?
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