(Thread) Interesting factoids about presidential elections.

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Since DC residents were granted the right to vote for President, 1968 is the only Presidential election in which one or more states gave a lower percentage of their vote to the GOP candidate than DC. (MS and AL).

On the topic of DC, I find it amusing (though utterly pedantic) that it trended Republican in 2008.

That's because a uniform swing model is dumb in that case.

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In each of 1980, 1984, and 1988, the GOP carried all nine US Census Bureau regions of the country (New England, Mid Atlantic, South Atlantic, East South Central, West South Central, East North Central, West North Central, Mountain, and Pacific).

In other words, the Dems did not carry a single one of the nine regions in the entire decade of the 1980s.

Going back to 1912, the only other times one party has carried all nine regions were 1932 and 1936 (Dem) and 1972 (GOP).

Did Wilson carry all 9 in 1912?

Which one did Dukakis come closest to getting in 1988

Wilson lost the Pacific, which may have ironically been Dukakis' best region.

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Since 1964, every time Georgia has voted Democratic, an incumbent president lost the national race, and vice-versa.

Since 1840, every time an incumbent President has lost, the Democrat won Georgia.