(Thread) Interesting factoids about presidential elections.
The Arizonan:
This is the thread for everyone to post interesting facts about presidential elections.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican to win the presidency and the second Republican nominated for president.
Herbert Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi River.
John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic to become president and the first president born in the twentieth century. He was also the second Catholic to be nominated president (Al Smith was the first).
Jimmy Carter was the first Democrat to win without winning New Mexico since it became a state.
Bill Clinton was the first Democrat to win without winning Texas. He was also the first Democrat to win both Georgia and Vermont in the same election. He's also the first baby boomer and first Arkansan (score one for flyover states) to become president.
George W. Bush was the last Republican to win New Hampshire (first time) and the first Republican to win without winning Illinois or Vermont. He was the first Republican to win without winning New Hampshire (second time). He was also the first nominee to win the presidency without winning a single state in the northeast (second time).
Barack Obama is the first Democrat to win without winning Missouri and of course, the first black president.
Donald Trump is the first Republican to win the presidency without winning New Hampshire the first time around and might become the first Republican president to have never won the state. He is also the first Republican to win Elliot County, Kentucky.
There hasn't been a Republican that has won the presidency without winning Ohio and yet there are Democrats that have won without winning Ohio.
Washington, D.C. has voted Democratic in every single presidential election since it first gained the right to vote in presidential elections.
The Govanah Jake:
In 1928, to show his support for Prohibition, Democrat Al Smith ran under the slogan "Vote for Al Smith, he will make your wet dreams come true"
SingingAnalyst:
Three major party candidates have failed to win a majority in even a single state: Taft 1912 (I believe his best showing was 37% in either UT or VT); Mondale 1984 (best showing 49.7% in MN); Bush 1992 (best showing 49.7% in MS).
DPKdebator:
John McCain is the only 21st century Republican candidate to not have the highest margin in any state compared to Bush (both 2000 and 2004), Romney, and Trump.
Mr. Smith:
McGovern is the most recent Democrat from The West and was the last time until 2016 that The West overall trended leftwards of The East.
Nevada has been just as reliable as Ohio in determining the winner since 1912.
2016 was the first election since 1932 in which Pennsylvania and Minnesota voted to the right of the nation.
Trump is the first President to lose his home-state by double digits.
2012 was the first time since 1944 that the winner decreased both his Electoral and Popular count.
Jimmy Carter's election did not create ANY coattails in the Senate, in fact, incumbent Democrats actually lost more than they gained from vulnerable incumbent Republican. But this was saved by Democrats picking up more open seats from retiring Republicans than the reverse.
Jimmy Carter is also the first Democrat to win without Nevada since Grover Cleveland.
2004 was the first election Republicans won without a single Northeastern state, and if Ohio had gone to Kerry would've been the first time a Democrat won without The South.
2000 would've been the first time Democrats won with The South, if Al Gore had just picked Jeanne Shaheen to lock up New Hampshire.
1988 was the first time a Republican won without Iowa.
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