LastMcGovernite
Ringorules
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« on: July 26, 2009, 10:46:04 PM » |
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Looking at the maps, it seems odd why Jimmy Carter did so badly in the West. With the obvious exception of Hawaii, Texas was the westernmost state he carried. Why couldn't Carter pull off a win in CA? Or Washington and Oregon, which both went for Humphrey and Dukakis? Moreover, 1976 is the only time since New Mexico was admitted to the union that it failed to vote for whomever won the popular vote. What gives?
What makes it even more unusual was the lack of Republican pull out West- Ford was a Midwesterner, and Dole was from Kansas- the safest of Republican states. It wasn't like 2008, where both McCain and Palin could legitimately claim to be westerners.
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