(Thread) Interesting factoids about presidential elections.

[Hope For A New Era]

2020:

Florida votes far to the right after spending most elections at a consistent R+3 angle.

It does seem like there has been a shift in 2018 and 2020 from R+3 or R+4 to something more like R+7.

[Agonized-Statism]

This is likely to be the first time since 1992 that Florida votes for the losing candidate, and the second time the state will have voted for a losing one-term Republican incumbent.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Joe Biden was the first Democratic presidential nominee since Al Gore to win the primaries in the anti-bellwether states Michigan, Oklahoma and West Virginia.

(Yes, I know that Obama did win OK and WV, but let's be honest: it was technically rather a Pyrrhic victory than a genuine win; he almost lost against a socially dangerous inmate; and in Oklahoma, he only managed to clinch a win because the opposition vote was split among numerous candidates.)

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Trump and Biden both received 306 (potential) electoral votes.
Moreover, in both elections, Pennsylvania was the tipping point.

[Alcibiades]

The last four times Georgia has voted Democratic (1976, 1980, 1992 and 2020) have been in an election where an incumbent president was defeated.

[morgankingsley]

Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the only two people to hit the 70 million mark

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

Arizona's county result map has altered for the first time since 2000.
Moreover, it is the first time since 1948 that Maricopa County has flipped in support of the Democrats.

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

Vermont has only voted against a Republican who won the national popular vote one time.

[Calthrina950]

Vermont has only voted against a Republican who won the national popular vote one time.

That would be George W. Bush in 2004.

[Alcibiades]

Another Georgia factoid: It is only the sixth state in the 2000s to not be bordered by any other states which voted for the same candidate; the others are NH and NM in 2000, FL in 2008 and 2012, and MN and IL in 2016.

[Hope For A New Era]

Another Georgia factoid: It is only the fourth state in the 2000s to not be bordered by any other states which voted for the same candidate; the others are NH and NM in 2000 and FL in 2008 and 2012.

It also borders the most states. FL borders two, NH borders three, NM borders four, GA borders five.

[TDAS04]

2020 is the second time ever that both Vermont and Georgia, or that both Vermont and Arizona, voted Democratic.

[morgankingsley]

Jo jorgeson got third place in every single state in the entire country

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

Georgia is anti-incumbent...they have only voted for the incumbent party twice in the last eight elections and only in one of those instances was their vote for an incumbent president.

[morgankingsley]

If biden wins georgia, 2020 will be the first time since 1880 where both major party candidates won a exact equal amount of states

[Calthrina950]

If biden wins georgia, 2020 will be the first time since 1880 where both major party candidates won a exact equal amount of states

Biden was officially projected as the winner in Georgia over the weekend.

[morgankingsley]

If biden wins georgia, 2020 will be the first time since 1880 where both major party candidates won a exact equal amount of states

Biden was officially projected as the winner in Georgia over the weekend.

The only reason I said "if" is because the fact that some sources refuse to shade the state as such, and there is one more day before the recount ending deadline.

Im not saying it would make any difference, but I was trying to give a neutral presentation here

Although the main part of the fact, that being it is the first time since 1880 where they both win and equal amount of states, is still correct

[Calthrina950]

If biden wins georgia, 2020 will be the first time since 1880 where both major party candidates won a exact equal amount of states

Biden was officially projected as the winner in Georgia over the weekend.

The only reason I said "if" is because the fact that some sources refuse to shade the state as such, and there is one more day before the recount ending deadline.

Im not saying it would make any difference, but I was trying to give a neutral presentation here

Although the main part of the fact, that being it is the first time since 1880 where they both win and equal amount of states, is still correct

I understand your caution. You're correct about the factoid which you included; I wasn't challenging that.

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

Trump is the first president since the nineteenth century to lose reelection despite getting more total votes than in their first election. He’s the first ever Republican President to do so.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Trump and Biden both received 306 (potential) electoral votes.
Moreover, in both elections, Pennsylvania was the tipping point.

Had everyone else called Arizona the same time Fox and AP did, it would have been Nevada.

[SingingAnalyst]

1. Prior to 2020 (going back to their admissions as states), every Democratic victor carried at least two of the following four states: Florida, Missouri, Ohio, Texas. Biden didn't win any.

2. The 1992 and 2020 elections are the only two in which both Georgia and Vermont voted Democratic; in both cases, GA's margin was extremely narrow while VT's was huge. Only times both states voted GOP were 1972, 1984, and 1988.

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

In the number we can see at Atlas (https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/), Jo Jorgensen had 1,856,116 votes. Abraham Lincoln had 1,855,993 votes in 1860. James Buchanan had 1,835,140 votes in 1856. All the previous presidents had a smaller number of votes.

We can see how the US population increased and how the suffrage increased.

[Bootes Void]

Trump and Biden both received 306 (potential) electoral votes.
Moreover, in both elections, Pennsylvania was the tipping point.

Had everyone else called Arizona the same time Fox and AP did, it would have been Nevada.

wouldnt Wisconsin be the tipping point as it done by margin?

[Anzeigenhauptmeister]

The difference between the population numbers of the home states of the president and the vice president, respectively, have never been bigger than in 2020.

[SingingAnalyst]

In the space for 5 Presidential elections, Georgia voted 3 times for candidates from 3 different parties that won less than 10% of the EV nationally:

1964: Goldwater (R) 52 EV's (9.7%)
1968: G. Wallace (AIP) 46 EV's (8.55%)
1980: Carter (D): 49 EV's (9.1%)

I doubt that's true of any other state.