A Lanslide Map

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ELECTION 2012



Republican Landslide
GOP challenger shifts the popular vote 27.26% to win by 20 points.

Democratic Landslide
Democratic incumbent gets poor Republican challenger; country delivers massive landslide.
Beginning with previous election’s 7.26% popular-vote margin,
incumbent shifts popular vote 20% to win by 27.26 points.

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pbrower2a,

In your Democratic Landslide scenario, you have Utah carrying over 10 points for a re-elected Barack Obama. I'm thinking you meant to indicate that Utah's margins would come down to the 10-point-plus range for the 2012 Republican challenger. (Not that this thread is about 2012.)

(In 2008, John McCain carried heavily-Republican Utah by 28 points, down 40% from the 45-point margin carried in 2004 by George W. Bush.)

Note on Mississippi: John McCain carried it in 2008 by 13 points, and won neighboring Alabama by 21 points. With 1960 an interesting twist (Harry Byrd), these two haven't disagreed on a presidential candidate since 1840.