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A very strange bill on I-80 polarizes the nation.

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Some Democrat decides there's only one way to get secure voting, and hacks the Diebold electronic voting machine to get his message across. The "HI!" doesn't go over too well.

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The head of the mormom church gets the Democratic nomination, and says that Mormoms that don't live in Utah are losers, and that the rest of states are whack. He comes out for DC statehood.  The Republican is from Massachusetts.

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Surprise Democrat win while losing the popular vote:

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These maps are kind of linked:

Top: State Senate
Bottom: State House

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Rep: 277
Dem: 254

1932 election, with the stock market crash occuring starting that Monday.

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Harry runs against George W. Bush. Harry is hut greatly by his lack of experience, but he gets a boost when Bush declares that he wishes that California would fall into the ocean.

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May be got with blind guesswork, but creating it required some research.
Ignore the Maine & Nebraska CDs.
Grey means tied. Vermont is tied between Democrats and Independents.
Hint: Look at the EV.

Here's a stab-the number of Congresspeople born in each state?

DING. We have a winner.

Do they have some sort of Congressman breeding factory in North Dakota?

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here's a hint, it has nothing to do with candidates, it's about an issue...

Red = State has a progressive income tax
Blue = State has a flat income tax
Green = State has no income tax

Isn't Alaska wrong?

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Might have been done before.

1972. Red states had counties won be George McGovern... I think. I tried something similar (never posted it), and it had similar results.

Yeah, you got it. You could make one where McGovern had to have one more than one county.

Funny that it's less than 60% for MA.

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Vermont's status was disputed. It was claimed by NY, NH, and ... Vermont.

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How many elections they had voted for whoever they voted for in 2004?

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And another:

About a 9 point swing to McGovern in 1972?

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Hint: It has to do with the Senate.

Actually, I made a couple mistakes. Nebraska and Florida should both be blue.

Anybody want to guess?

Okay, since nobody wants to guess, I'll just say what it is. Each state is colored according to the political affiliation of the last incumbent Senator to lose reelection. I think Kansas should also be blue, though.

That's a pretty cool idea.
Some of these are pretty long ago, I suppose?

Interesting. Note that losing the primary counts. In NH, Smith was the last Republican incumbent to lose when he lost the 2002 primary. Durkin, a Democrat, was the last to lose a general election, in 1980.

Alaska is weird. Current Presidential candidate Mike Gravel beat an incumbent Democrat in the 1968 primary, and served 2 terms before he himself lost the primary. Alaska has had 2 Republicans since his term ended in 1981. Who would have thought that both incumbent Alaska Senators defeated would be Democrats who lost in the primary?

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The only hint I'm giving is that they're fairly unrelated. The first 3 are hard, the last one is easy.

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The only hint I'm giving is that they're fairly unrelated. The first 3 are hard, the last one is easy.

The third one is 1916 with the parties reversed and a slight swing to the Republican.  The fourth one is obviously the 2004 election, but where are Alaska and Hawaii?

For comparision's sake I took out Alaska and Hawaii. Yes, you got the easy one, and 1/3 of the hard ones. I think I may have screwed up DE on one of the other two, BTW.

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As I pointed out a long time ago, Lincoln still wins with only 39.65% of the vote. It's pretty epic that the anti-Lincoln candidate loses with 60.35% of the vote.