If Georgia didn't go straight to Bill Clinton at 7 PM, Georgia would've been the only one too close to call by 3 AM, Clinton would have to wait a week or two to win the Peach State.
A total of 300 EVs went to Bill Clinton as soon as the polls closed in 1992, and in 1996, a total of 350 EVs went to Bill Clinton as soon as the polls closed in those states.
In 1992, Bill Clinton carried my home state of NJ by a margin of just 2.37%! (In 1988, Bush won it by 14 points, and is the only state excluded from the Dukakis strategy to not cast a single vote for a Republican since the 1980s.)
Maine was excluded from the Dukakis strategy too. So were NM, NH, VA, CO, and NV!
This is also the only election where Vermont and Georgia both voted Democrat in the same election (if you don't include the elections before the founding of the Republican party). Vermont never went Democrat until 1964, Georgia never went Republican until 1964. Both states voted Republican in 1972, 1984, and 1988.
It's important to note that Vermont voted straight Whig before the Republican Party even existed. Why was it Republican for so long?
-Because it was so strongly Republican before 1960, and many older Republicans in it couldn't believe what the GOP was becoming for decades.
