States which are the least likely to have all their counties go to one candidate

[Nym90]

The closest to a Dem sweep.

Jim Blanchard (D) v. Bill Lucas (R), 1986:



Blanchard won 68/31. Including a 73/26 win in Lucas' home county (Wayne).

Nice.

How close did Blanchard come to winning Ottawa County?

[Nym90]

Until Bredesen's re-election, I would have said TN. Amazing that a Dem carried every county in E. Tennessee. Good job Phil!

What a sad mandate for murder.

I assume you're referring to the TennCare cuts, which really made me angry as well. What was really dumb about them was that TN is surrendering two dollars in federal money for every one dollar it is saving in state money. I'm sure there are forty-nine other states that won't mind taking that federal cash.

Exactly.  And he ran in 2002 on using his health care management experience and business acumen to fix TennCare.  Instead, he used the state sales tax winfall to make himself look fiscally responsible and turned around and cut people's health care safety net out from under them.  What a (D)ope.

He's so personally wealthy that he cannot and does not understand the struggles of the most needy Tennesseans.  Unfortunately, neither do the majority of Tennesseans - as was proved by the results of the election.

I agree with you that Bredesen is way too conservative. Unfortunately Tennessee probably isn't going to elect a liberal governor.

[Nym90]

The following states (in red below) have not had any candidate (Presidential, Gubernatorial, or Senatorial) carry all counties in that states since at least 1996.

In addition to the states mentioned earlier in this thread, I'd say Colorado would be quite difficult for either party to carry all counties.

I assume you are not counting elections in which one of the major parties didn't nominate a candidate (VA 2002 and IN 2006 Senate races, for example).