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« on: February 12, 2018, 08:04:21 PM »

I'm looking at which states put winning presidential candidates over the 270 EV mark. Compiled this data from watching various Election Night playbacks. Since it is a pretty arbitrary stat, it's interesting how often it happens to be Ohio.

2016: PA
2012: OH
2008: CA
2004: OH
2000: FL
1996: NY
1992: OH
1976: MS

If anybody can add to this list, I'd appreciate it.
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2018, 10:25:25 PM »

1988: Michigan
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2018, 03:31:56 PM »

I'm looking at which states put winning presidential candidates over the 270 EV mark. Compiled this data from watching various Election Night playbacks. Since it is a pretty arbitrary stat, it's interesting how often it happens to be Ohio.

2016: PA
2012: OH
2008: CA
2004: OH
2000: FL
1996: NY
1992: OH
1976: MS

If anybody can add to this list, I'd appreciate it.
Interesting that MS played that role one year. As for OH, it is an EV-rich state that votes near the national average, is often close, and therefore gets called late-- thus is particularly likely to be the deciding state.
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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2018, 03:33:42 PM »

Glad to know my state decided the most vapid election of our time.
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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2018, 09:32:14 PM »


I clicked randomly on parts of the 7-hour-long video, and what I found was funny enough.
For example, Illinois (which eventually went for Bush) very close during the vote-tallying. A Democratic pundit said that it would vote for Dukakis in the end because the Southern precincts hadn't been counted yet.
A Republican pundit complained that Bush didn't campaign enough in New York State, otherwise he would have won the state.
A host said if Dukakis couldn't win Arkansas, he couldn't win the election.
Plus, the black host predicted Bush's breach of promise of not raising the taxes.
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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2018, 10:01:12 PM »

Actually I compiled a list of these:

2016: Pennsylvania
2012: Ohio
2008: California
2004: Ohio
2000: Florida
1996: New Mexico
1992: Ohio
1988: Nevada
1984: N/A
1980: South Carolina
1976: Hawaii
1972: Ohio
1968: Illinois
1960: Missouri
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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2018, 10:04:01 PM »

1984: all the states that were called at 9 pm: VT, ME, NY, MD, NC, WI, IL, MO, AR, LA, SD, NE, WY, CO, NM.

By the way, wasn't NBC's map of the United States a real gem?



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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2018, 10:06:37 PM »

Actually I compiled a list of these:

2016: Pennsylvania
2012: Ohio
2008: California
2004: Ohio
2000: Florida
1996: New Mexico
1992: Ohio
1988: Nevada
1984: N/A
1980: South Carolina
1976: Hawaii
1972: Ohio
1968: Illinois
1960: Missouri


2004 actually varied by the network :


for NBC and Fox it was Nevada (they called Ohio earlier, and Bush's electoral count was stuck at 269 until they called Nevada which pushed him over the top)
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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2018, 10:18:31 PM »

On a slightly unrelated note,

https://youtu.be/PwiKrs12aBY?t=9890
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