Why did TN swing to Bush in 88?
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Frozen Sky Ever Why
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« on: June 30, 2014, 06:55:45 PM »

The only thing I can think of, is that the economy was poor in TN and Mondale played well with working class voters, and Dukakis turned some of them off with his social liberalism.
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« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2014, 01:41:26 PM »

Yeah, Mondale was more of an old-school New Dealer and Dukakis was more of a New Left adherent.
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« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2014, 02:57:36 PM »

I just find it odd that TN is the only place where this phenomenon occurred.
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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2014, 07:10:14 PM »

I just find it odd that TN is the only place where this phenomenon occurred.

D.C actually swung as well   Also keep in mind TN's swing was very small, .08%, Georgia was actually pretty much in line, swinging .13% to Duakis.
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« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2014, 09:44:09 PM »

Remember that young Al Gore was on the ballot that year in his first senate race, where he actually did better than Reagan (60.7%) and the Republican only got 33%. There may have been some straight-ticket voting there that lifted Mondale slightly. Recall as well that TN was Carter's third-best state in '80 (not counting DC) in percentage of the vote, though he lost it. Being Carter's VP was probably not the detriment there that it was elsewhere in the country.

Bush - more than Reagan - is the kind of moderate Howard Baker/Lamar Alexander Republican TN likes and may have carried the state in '92 had Gore not been on the ticket.
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