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Diogenes’ Brief History of Electoral College Presidential Contest
These are the Electoral College Presidential Election maps going back to 1972, all from the American Presidency Project. Hitting the link above each map will take you to a detailed analysis of each election, a tally of the Electoral College votes allocated to each state at the time, plus a state-by-state vote total and other trivia.
1972 In the early 1970s, the left wing (i.e.Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, George McGovern) had gained control of the Democrat party, but America wasn’t buying it back in those days. Sitting President Richard Nixon was reelected with 520 Electoral votes (60% popular vote) with George McGovern only taking 17 (Massachusetts). Origins of the phrase “Epic Fail”.






Anonymous
October 17th, 2012
Very interesting. I show 352 for R/R.
iamthegps
October 17th, 2012
Well, they say history repeats itself… At least here’s hoping.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
October 17th, 2012
Reagan came close to that in round two, too.
Three times a charm…
AbigailAdams
October 17th, 2012
My map came to 386 Romney.
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 17th, 2012
I know this would be a dream come true, but I would like to see ZerO carry zero states. That would be a very clear message to the MSM and the Demonrats to STFU!
keep the piece
October 18th, 2012
same here, FM, would like to see all 57/8 states, but, that’s a fine lookin map right chare
old_oaks
October 18th, 2012
This is WHY I have a bumper sticker on my Jeep that reads…
[b]“RepibliCAN Do in ’72[/b]
I chose it for the Electoral College results where the country was FAR LESS DIVIDED THAN IT IS TODAY.
I have 2 more bumper stickers that I might add in the next few days.
[b]“NIXON/AGNEW”[/b]
&
[b]Have A Nice NATION… NIXON in ’72[/b] with a big orange smiley face.
old_oaks
October 18th, 2012
Fixing my tags…
This is WHY I have a bumper sticker on my Jeep that reads…
“RepibliCAN Do in ’72
I chose it for the Electoral College results where the country was FAR LESS DIVIDED THAN IT IS TODAY.
I have 2 more bumper stickers that I might add in the next few days.
“NIXON/AGNEW”
&
Have A Nice NATION… NIXON in ’72 with a big orange smiley face.
AbigailAdams
October 18th, 2012
@old oaks — haha! Unfortunately a lot of the obama voters wouldn’t know what the bumper stickers mean, given that the 70′s were sometime just after the precolumbian era. Like, ya know?
Stranded in Sonoma
October 18th, 2012
Great site for all of the election information.
But I have a problem with the 1960 election numbers. They always show Kennedy winning both the popular and electoral votes. That wasn’t the case. Nixon won the popular vote, Kennedy got the electors. And if you look at the map, you’ll see that too. Harry Byrd (the father of the KKK member Robert Byrd) got 15 electoral votes but no popular votes! That is possible, but highly unlikely. The following is from an OpinionJournal column from 2003:
I just wish that sites like this would get the vote count right. Kennedy was NOT a popular president by any stretch of the imagination. Like FDR before him, he just had a great PR machine to sell his presidency after he died.
Dren
October 18th, 2012
What a bunch of Massholes.
Death_By_Farts
October 18th, 2012
Obama will easily carry California, Washington, and Oregon on the west coast.
In the Midwest, he’ll probably carry Nevada (thanks to the Unions and Clark County), New Mexico, and Minnesota, although it’s said by some pollsters that Minnesota is now within reach for Romney.
I’m not holding my breath though, because it hasn’t gone red since 1972, and even Carter and Modale carried it. And any state that would actually elected a horses-ass like Al Franken is too far gone anyway.
Finally, Obama will win Illinois of course, but I’ll will die laughing if it goes red this time. (IL is always the first state to light up on the map on election night).
The sheep in the northeast will not let Obama down either. He’ll easily carry New York, Maryland, DC, Delaware, Conneticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Massachustas. Maine, New Hampshire, and even Jersey might very well go red this time.
I predict Obama will lose states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin that he assumes are safe-blue.
Obama’s end result…..EPIC FAIL