DS0816
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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2016, 02:30:39 PM » |
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States 100 years of age, at a minimum, which have always carried for winning Republicans: Arizona, North Dakota and, most famously, Ohio.
States 100 years of age, at a minimum, which have always carried for winning Democrats: None apply. (In 2008, Arkansas and Missouri broke the pattern. But, since 1988, winning Republicans and Democrats have seen those previous states' patterns break as the electoral map pretty much became an inverse of where the two parties' base states used to be. George Bush, in 1988, became the first winning Republican to not carry Iowa. Bill Clinton, in 1992 and 1996, became the first winning Democrat to not carry Texas. George W. Bush, in 2000, became the first winning Republican to not carry Illinois and Vermont and, in 2004, likewise New Hampshire. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first winning Democrat to not carry Arkansas and Missouri.)
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