The Great American Ironies

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

John Kerry's best county in 2004 (unless you count DC) and Obama's third best county (again excluding DC) was also Coolidge's third best county in 1924.

In 1932 Hoover lost in a landslide, but did manage to carry Pennsylvania...thanks to his strength in Philadelphia and the immediate surrounding areas.

Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the union as sort of a "trade" agreement, with the expectation that Alaska would be a reliably Democratic state and Hawaii a reliably Republican one.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Before 2008 who would've ever predicted that the first black President and first President born in Hawaii would be the same person?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The "yore" and "of" is just the icing on the cake.

Oh yeah also "Goverment".

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Perhaps the greatest irony of all: blacks vote 90% Democrat, when the Democrats fought consistently throughout history against their freedom and equality and Republicans who fought for it.

Yes, it's quite ironic that blacks today care more about economic issues and which President had the Civil Rights Act passed than what positions the parties took in the 19th century.