"'Oeps!' De blunders van Rick Perry Indicted"
DarthNader
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« on: July 03, 2014, 09:44:09 PM » |
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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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