1972 County Figures

[afcassidy]

I noticed on the elections statistics area for 1972, John Schmitz is not listed as having come in 2nd in any counties.

However, it looks like at least in Jefferson county, Idaho he placed well ahead of McGovern.

[jimrtex]

I noticed on the elections statistics area for 1972, John Schmitz is not listed as having come in 2nd in any counties.

However, it looks like at least in Jefferson county, Idaho he placed well ahead of McGovern.

McGovern is listed with 1st or 2nd finishes in 4 fewer counties than Nixon is.  This corresponds to the 4 Idaho counties where Schmitz finished ahead of McGovern.

In 1992, the top 3 finishes of Clinton, Bush, and Perot are listed.  Perot has one less top 3 finish than the other two, meaning that in one county Perot finished 4th or worse.

It looks like the statistic displayed is the top N finished by the top N candidates, where N is 2 or 3.

[minionofmidas]

As fór the 1972 results, here's one strange factoid:
McGovern carried only two counties in Colorado. Of these, Costilla has voted for the Democrat in every election since 1960, but Pitkin went for the Republican in 1960, 1968, 1976, 1980, and 1984. It's become very Democratic since. (And in 1980, Reagan carried it with less than 40% of the vote, as Anderson got over 20%.)

[jimrtex]

As fór the 1972 results, here's one strange factoid:
McGovern carried only two counties in Colorado. Of these, Costilla has voted for the Democrat in every election since 1960, but Pitkin went for the Republican in 1960, 1968, 1976, 1980, and 1984. It's become very Democratic since. (And in 1980, Reagan carried it with less than 40% of the vote, as Anderson got over 20%.)

Costilla is a majority Hispanic county in the San Luis Valley, settled from New Mexico, and is one of the poorest counties in the state.  The county seat of Pitkin is Aspen, making it one of the wealthiest counties in the state (the workers can't afford to live there).

[jimrtex]

McGovern was a real loser..

Yeah, but WHY THE HELL did he carry Pitkin Co? Divine Prefiguration?

Hunter S Thompson is from Aspen.

[khirkhib]

Thompson ran for office that year too I think.  It may have been in 76.

[minionofmidas]

McGovern was a real loser..

Yeah, but WHY THE HELL did he carry Pitkin Co? Divine Prefiguration?

Hunter S Thompson is from Aspen.

He is from Louisville, KY.
Anyways, that's not really an explanation.
Re: Rocket. No.

[Hitchabrut]

Elitist Hippies?

[mianfei]

I noticed on the elections statistics area for 1972, John Schmitz is not listed as having come in 2nd in any counties.

However, it looks like at least in Jefferson county, Idaho he placed well ahead of McGovern.

Schmitz placed second ahead of McGovern in four Idaho counties – Jefferson, Fremont, Lemhi and Madison. These are four of the most conservative, rock-ribbed Republican counties in the nation – in Madison no Democrat has obtained 25 percent of the vote since 1964 and only Jimmy Carter over 20 percent. Only in Lemhi has any Democrat obtained 30 percent since 1980 – and there not since Dukakis in 1988.

Although there were many cases of third party candidates winning Southern counties between 1948 and 1968 due to the salience of the Civil Rights issue and the split of Southern Democrats from the nation party, Schmitz was the first third party candidate to finish even second in a non-Southern county (defined as outside the sixteen slave states and Oklahoma) since William Lemke in 1936 finished ahead of Alf Landon in the four North Dakota counties of Burke, Divide, Mountrail and Towner. Since 1972, only Ross Perot in 1992 (360 counties) and Evan McMullin in 2016 (22 counties) have finished ahead of a major-party nominee in any county – and except that McMullin did not do so in Lemhi County, both replicated Schmitz.

[Antonio the Sixth]

12-year-old necrobump? Really?