DS0816
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« on: December 28, 2015, 08:09:33 AM » |
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Of the 26 states which carried for losing Republican, and then incumbent vice president Richard Nixon, in 1960, 25 of them flipped Democratic for a full term in electing Lyndon Johnson the nation's 36th president.
Any of the states in Nixon's 1960 Republican column could not expect to give Johnson higher margins than his national 22.58 percentage points, over Barry Goldwater, but the one that is most telling is Vermont. That 1960 election marked the first time the Republican Party did not carry Vermont. Much was made of how incredibly Barry Goldwater flipped and carried Mississippi (even more so than its historical companion state, Alabama; the two have voted the same since they first participated in 1820 with the sole exception of 1840). But, take a look at Vermont in 1964!
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