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If you don’t like *a lot* of American psephology, past and present, you’re really not going to like this account for basically the next 48 hours.
On this theme, no better way than to start the day with a quiz: which President was the last to carry a county in every single state of the United States and in which election did he do it?
Well done to the few who said Bill Clinton in 1996.
To those saying what about Alaska, it’s one of only two states (along with Louisiana) technically not to have counties
Next question: what was the last election where the winning candidate did not win a majority of the states?
Well done to those who said 1976 (my favourite electoral map)
OK, a bit harder: Which was the last presidential election where a Republican victor did not win Nebraska?
You clever, clever people: was indeed Taft in 1908. Taft’s opponent (and perennial presidential candiate) William Jennings Bryan, was from the Cornhusker state.
