1972 County Figures

[jimrtex]

I noticed on the elections statistics area for 1972, John Schmitz is not listed as having come in 2nd in any counties.

However, it looks like at least in Jefferson county, Idaho he placed well ahead of McGovern.

McGovern is listed with 1st or 2nd finishes in 4 fewer counties than Nixon is.  This corresponds to the 4 Idaho counties where Schmitz finished ahead of McGovern.

In 1992, the top 3 finishes of Clinton, Bush, and Perot are listed.  Perot has one less top 3 finish than the other two, meaning that in one county Perot finished 4th or worse.

It looks like the statistic displayed is the top N finished by the top N candidates, where N is 2 or 3.

[jimrtex]

As fór the 1972 results, here's one strange factoid:
McGovern carried only two counties in Colorado. Of these, Costilla has voted for the Democrat in every election since 1960, but Pitkin went for the Republican in 1960, 1968, 1976, 1980, and 1984. It's become very Democratic since. (And in 1980, Reagan carried it with less than 40% of the vote, as Anderson got over 20%.)

Costilla is a majority Hispanic county in the San Luis Valley, settled from New Mexico, and is one of the poorest counties in the state.  The county seat of Pitkin is Aspen, making it one of the wealthiest counties in the state (the workers can't afford to live there).

[jimrtex]

McGovern was a real loser..

Yeah, but WHY THE HELL did he carry Pitkin Co? Divine Prefiguration?

Hunter S Thompson is from Aspen.