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RBH
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« on: November 15, 2006, 08:47:08 PM »

I'm sure some Republican won a county in a state that they didn't get 10% in

The winner is probably Coleman Andrews winning one county and 2% in Tennessee in 1956.
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« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2006, 09:18:17 PM »

I'm sure some Republican won a county in a state that they didn't get 10% in

The winner is probably Coleman Andrews winning one county and 2% in Tennessee in 1956.

Probably.

Alachua County, Florida, in 1928 doesn't qualify, but it does come close:

Smith (Republican) - 35.01%
Thomas (Socialist) - 32.18% (1.59% statewide)
Foster (Communist) - 30.45% (1.46% statewide)

I always like to bring that up.  Tongue
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« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2006, 08:22:21 AM »

Smith a Republican? Perhaps you meant Hoover? If this is 1928 presidential you are referring to I am really confused by the percentage totals since it would appear no votes for Democrats.
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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2006, 03:14:06 PM »

Not Presidential, but look at Lugar's libertarian challenger's results in this election.  He somehow won a county getting about 10% of the vote.
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2006, 03:28:50 PM »

The winner is probably Coleman Andrews winning one county and 2% in Tennessee in 1956.

Andrews also carried one county in Virginia the same year, while polling only 6 percent of the statewide vote. Honorable mention goes to Herbert Hoover, who carried two Georgia counties in 1932 with 8 percent of the vote.
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« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2006, 03:51:57 AM »
« Edited: November 22, 2006, 03:56:04 AM by Gabu »

Not Presidential, but look at Lugar's libertarian challenger's results in this election.  He somehow won a county getting about 10% of the vote.

That was a clerical error on CNN's part.  Osborn's vote count in Warren county should have been 341, not 3,419.  It's likely that a data entry guy accidentally brushed the 9 key when going to hit enter and didn't bother to double-check Indiana results, thinking the state inconsequential.

You can see the correct result here.
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« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2006, 04:09:47 AM »

Not Presidential, but look at Lugar's libertarian challenger's results in this election.  He somehow won a county getting about 10% of the vote.

That was a clerical error on CNN's part.  Osborn's vote count in Warren county should have been 341, not 3,419.  It's likely that a data entry guy accidentally brushed the 9 key when going to hit enter and didn't bother to double-check Indiana results, thinking the state inconsequential.

You can see the correct result here.

According to Dave, it was actually Indiana, not CNN.  But it was an error.
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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2006, 05:16:02 PM »

Not Presidential, but look at Lugar's libertarian challenger's results in this election.  He somehow won a county getting about 10% of the vote.

That was a clerical error on CNN's part.  Osborn's vote count in Warren county should have been 341, not 3,419.  It's likely that a data entry guy accidentally brushed the 9 key when going to hit enter and didn't bother to double-check Indiana results, thinking the state inconsequential.

You can see the correct result here.

According to Dave, it was actually Indiana, not CNN.  But it was an error.

Whatever, my point still stands. Tongue
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« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2006, 05:30:08 PM »

Not Presidential, but look at Lugar's libertarian challenger's results in this election.  He somehow won a county getting about 10% of the vote.

That was a clerical error on CNN's part.  Osborn's vote count in Warren county should have been 341, not 3,419.  It's likely that a data entry guy accidentally brushed the 9 key when going to hit enter and didn't bother to double-check Indiana results, thinking the state inconsequential.

You can see the correct result here.

According to Dave, it was actually Indiana, not CNN.  But it was an error.

Whatever, my point still stands. Tongue

No, Gabu, it has come tumbling down like your tower of lies.
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