U.S. Electoral College Landslides

Would you also be able to add the actual percentages the winning and losing candidate got? It would be interesting to compare the actual vote numbers with the electoral vote numbers.

Indeed, but winning 49/50 states is an incredible feat, regardless of the margin.

good point

Very interesting, indeed. Thumbs up!

Yes, you are generally correct, but it's worth recognizing that the Democratic party was not entirely shut out of the south; Clinton and Gore were both southerners, and the 1992 ticket won Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky (4 out of 10 former Confederate states). Florida has been a swing state for the past 20 years, while Virginia is proving to have become solidly Democratic at the state and national level. My point is that it's not impossible for Democrats to win in the south even at the national level - Obama won Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida and Biden may be able to repeat that feat.

The thing is both the Republican and Democratic Party have basically morphed into parties that are not at all the same as the time of the Civil War or even after Reformation. For example, The Republican party was very pro-civil rights as it started out, but by the 1960s when the civil rights movement came about, they were almost al against it.

I remember '72. One candidate had been killed in the '68 election which was still on our minds. Many Democrats and Republicans were closer to the center back then, but in '72 the Dems chose a very liberal McGovern as their candidate. It had been assumed Ted Kennedy would be the candidate but Chappaquiddick ended that, opening the field. McGovern wound up with the most primary delegates, but the Dems made a lot of rule changes at their convention which ticked a lot of supporters off, and in the end McGovern won the nomination but there were votes cast for dozens of candidates, and choosing a running mate turned into a fiasco. Less than three weeks after announcing Tom Eagleton as the VP running mate, it came out that Eagleton had failed to disclose that he received electroshock therapy for depression and Eagleton stepped down. Kennedy in-law, Sargent Shriver, stepped into the running mate's shoes. It all just seemed to be a big mess, and none of that boded well for a Dem victory.

My father jokes that he's the only person who voted for Nixon and the only person who saw 'Deep Throat.'

I feel ya

But either way, you're right that he didn't run unopposed.

Unanimous, yes. Unopposed? No. Pretty sure that Adams would have preferred to win.