(Thread) Interesting factoids about presidential elections.

[Nate Shahidi]

In 1984, Reagan became the first Republican to win the White House without winning Marin County, California.

In 1972, Nixon became the first candidate from either party to carry all 159 counties in Georgia. Just four years later, Jimmy Carter became the first Democrat to do the same thing, flipping all 159 counties.

31 states have a Washington County. In 2020, the most Republican one was in Colorado, and the most Democratic one was in Mississippi.

[Nate Shahidi]

Since it became a state in 1912, Arizona has voted for every multi-term US president at least once, with the exception of Barack Obama.