(Thread) Interesting factoids about presidential elections.

[TheTide]

In Eighty Eight, Kentucky in 1948, the result was Truman 88, Dewey 88.

[TheTide]

FDR thought he'd win by 360 to 171 in 1936. Not as inaccurate as the Literary Digest, but still not great. When New Haven's returns came in and had him ahead by 15,000 votes, he requested that the numbers be double-checked. When they were confirmed, he knew he'd won by an absolute blowout margin.

(Source: FDR by Jean Edward Smith)

[TheTide]

The ranking of states from best to worst for John Anderson in 1980 is a bit similar to the inverse of that for George Wallace in 1968.

To some extent it must be true for Perot as well.

[TheTide]

1992 was the last time every county in a state flipped from backing one party’s presidential nominee four year earlier to voting against that party’s candidate. Every county in Maine went for Bush in 1988, but they all flipped for either Clinton or Perot four years later.

If that doesn’t count, all of Hawaii flipped from (non-Atlas colors) red to blue in 1988.

Neither as impressive as Georgia from 1972 to 1976 of course.