Real election results that would have seemed absurd as predictions

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

"An openly gay woman will be elected to the senate in Wisconsin."

Beating a former Governor, to boot.

Considering that Wilma was not only the most sensible person on The Flintstones, but one of the most sensible characters on TV in the 1960s, why wouldn't the voters choose someone who knows how to have a gay old time?

Yabba Dabba Doo!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

George W. Bush beating Ann Richards for governor of Texas in 1994.  And a losing Republican candidate for Michigan governor carrying Genesee County in 1960:

FTR, that was Paul Bagwell.  Nixon also carried Genesee County that year, which also would have seemed absurd as a prediction:


These maps really creep me out because it just makes no sense for heavily unionized Genesee County to vote for a losing GOP candidate for both president and Michigan governor, even as Macomb County was voting overwhelmingly Dem.

The Republicans weren't anti-union in 1960 and with their rich contracts, I imagine many of the UAW members voted as befitted their economic interests.