pendragon
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« on: September 23, 2014, 08:36:43 PM » |
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« edited: September 23, 2014, 09:13:23 PM by pendragon »
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VP picks who may have flipped their home states (with margin of victory):
Al Gore, TN, 1992 (4.65%) and 1996 (2.41%) Dan Quayle, IN, 1992 (6.11%) Walter Mondale, MN, 1980 (3.94%) Bob Dole, KS, 1976 (7.55%) - an unusually poor showing for a Republican in Kansas, so Dole may have actually hurt Ed Muskie, ME, 1968 (12.23%) - a large margin of victory, but ME was very Repub at the time, so Muskie probably delivered it Lyndon Johnson, TX, 1960 (2.00%) - helped by Johnson's popularity amongst the dead as well as the living John Bricker, OH, 1944 (0.37%) Harry Truman, MO, 1944 (2.94%) Joseph Robinson, AR, 1928 (20.96%) - Hoover won 4/6 neighboring states due to anti-Catholicism Charles Fairbanks, IN, 1916 (0.97%) Hiram Johnson (Progressive), CA, 1912 (0.03%) Theodore Roosevelt, NY, 1900 (9.27%) - I'm including all where the margin is under 10% Adlai Stevenson I, IL, 1892 (3.09%) Levi Morton, NY, 1888 (1.09%) - decided the election! Thomas Hendricks, IN, 1884 (1.32%) John Logan, IL, 1884 (3.73%) Chester Arthur, NY, 1880 (1.91%) - decided the election! Thomas Hendricks, IN, 1876 (1.26%) B. Gratz Brown, MO, 1872 (11.81%) - Grant won VA (where Democrats had already replaced the Reconstruction administration), DE and WV, and only lost MD, KY, and TN by small margins Schuyler Colfax, IN, 1868 (2.79%) John Breckinridge, KY, 1856 (5.09%) Theodore Frelinghuysen (Whig), NJ, 1844 (1.08%) George Dallas, PA, 1844 (1.91%) Martin Van Buren, NY, 1832 (4.21%) John Calhoun (Republican), SC, 1824 - may have been the reason SC gave its electoral and house votes to Jackson instead of Crawford Aaron Burr (Republican), NY, 1800 - Burr led a takeover of the Federalist state legislature by the Republicans, NY decided the election
Joseph Robinson in 1928 was probably the "MVP" (pardon the lame pun) in the 20th century for how much he probably swung AR to Al Smith, followed by Ed Muskie in Maine. Aaron Burr is probably a good all-time pick, since the (Democratic-)Republican/Democratic machine he created ran the state completely uninterrupted until it split over slavery in the late 1830s.
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