What makes this happen in a presidential election?

[A18]

That's the map of total House votes-per-party for 1992.

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Where'd you get this information?

[A18]

http://clerk.house.gov/members/electionInfo/1992/92Stat.htm

For other years:
http://clerk.house.gov/members/electionInfo/elections.html

[True Democrat]

Suddenly Reconstruction reappears in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.  The Democrats out of anger at the Radical Republicans run Breaux (who loses Louisiana because of the reconstruction troops).  He picks Daschle for his Vice-President.  The Republicans nominate Rell and Santorum.  West Virginia is so solidly Democratic because Rell makes an anti-coal comment.  Dean runs with Douglas in a third party.

[Beet]

Suddenly Reconstruction reappears in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.  The Democrats out of anger at the Radical Republicans run Breaux (who loses Louisiana because of the reconstruction troops).  He picks Daschle for his Vice-President.  The Republicans nominate Rell and Santorum.  West Virginia is so solidly Democratic because Rell makes an anti-coal comment.  Dean runs with Douglas in a third party.

Hey, I just noticed that those are the same 3 states that Rutherford Hayes stole from Samuel Tilden. Other things about those states
1 SC: The SC Democratic party never recovered from 1948. After that, southern/central parts of the state never again voted Democratic until Carter in 1976. The first Dixiecrat to join the flow to the GOP was none other than that state's Strom Thurmond.

2 LA: The state, unlike other southern states, has a large contingent of Catholics in addition to Southern Baptists. It was the first Deep South state to vote Republican on the presidential level since reconstruction (Eisenhower '56).

3 FL: The state saw rapid development in the Republican southern part of the state after 1920.

Btw, A18: are you going to do this for other years?

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In 1992, the NY Congressional delegation was 18-13 Democratic., and the Senate was 1-1 Now it's 20-9 Democratic for Congress and 2-0 Democratic for the Senate. Meanwhile the rest of the country has gotten more Republican.

[A18]

Btw, A18: are you going to do this for other years?

Probably, but not tonight, I don't think

[Beet]

Btw, A18: are you going to do this for other years?

Probably, but not tonight, I don't think

Well, here is 1994:

Party | Popular Vote | Congressional Seats
Republican | 36,740,064 | 51.39% | 230 | 52.87%
Democratic | 32,070,314 | 44.86% | 204 | 46.90%
Independent | 105,502 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.23%
Other | 2,683,771 | 3.75% | 0 | 0.00%

[A18]

LOL, I had just finished it!



I got white for Lousiana, since I only had general election results, and every representative got over 50% in the primary.

[Beet]

LOL, I had just finished it!

Heh, at least we're double checking each other. I was wrong about KY.

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I looked up the results on the Louisiana secretary of state website.

[A18]

There's 2004. The Louisiana result leaves out District 4, since it was decided in a primary, so it could be off by a little.

[Erc]

2004:



EDIT:  And, apparently, Philip beat me to it.

[A18]

^ North Dakota is only 59.6%. Close, but not quite >60%.

[Erc]

Yep.  Forgot to change the color from Bush's percentage.

[Beet]

This map looks much more like the presidential map than 1994. I would be interested to see what the PV was like in 2004 nationally.

[Erc]

Note also that New York is going to be ridiculously messed up in all of these due to its multi-party tradition...and you can't just add the columns together, since occasionally there are Republican Liberals, and the Independence (Reform) party might endorse one or the other...

[A18]

This map looks much more like the presidential map than 1994. I would be interested to see what the PV was like in 2004 nationally.

GOP 49.3%, Dem 46.5%

[Erc]

This map looks much more like the presidential map than 1994. I would be interested to see what the PV was like in 2004 nationally.

Republicans:  55,713,412 (49.3%)
Democrats:  52,590,729 (46.5%)
Libertarians: 1,029,154 (0.9%)


EDIT:  Grrr....

[Beet]

This map looks much more like the presidential map than 1994. I would be interested to see what the PV was like in 2004 nationally.

Republicans:  55,713,412 (49.3%)
Democrats:  52,590,729 (46.5%)
Libertarians: 1,029,154 (0.9%)


EDIT:  Grrr....

Thanks... LOL

It looks like a heck of a lot of presidential voters didn't bother to vote downballot. Also, of interesting note, more people voted for George H.W. Bush in 1992 than Newt Gingrich for Speaker in 1994.

[Erc]

1964:

Note that Arkansas is weird since it does not require unopposed candidates to report votes.  But all three unopposed candidates (out of 4 total) are Democrats anyway.



Democrats: 56.9%
Republicans: 42.4%

MS wins the "Ticket-Splitting of the Millennium" Award.

[Erc]

Compare that result to 1962 (not going to do the map now):

Democrats: 52.1%
Republicans: 47.1%

and 1966:

Democrats: 50.5%
Republicans: 48.0%


...and you can see the true extent of the landslide.  I like Goldwater, I really do...but he really, really screwed the Republican party.