Trump also won both Florida AND Ohio. Only three times in our nation's history has a presidential candidate won both Florida and Ohio but lost the general election.
Kennedy and I forget the other one. Florida and Ohio are both populous states with a lot of electoral votes, and have voting demographics comparable to most other states. So if you can't carry one or the other or both, you most likely can't carry enough other states to win.
I went through the list from 1900 till now. From 1900 until the 1920s (ish) there was a strong north/south split, so Florida went Democrat and Ohio went Republican pretty much every election. From WWII onwards, Kennedy won in 1960 without winning either, and in 1992 Clinton(?) won the election winning only one of them. Other than that, the election winner has always won both, since WWII.
That's why I'm saying the demographics were very different back in the 1800s to early 1900s. It was the very strong north/south split.
Trump also won both Florida AND Ohio. Only three times in our nation's history has a presidential candidate won both Florida and Ohio but lost the general election.
When were the other two? It has only happened once since 1900. The country was very different demographically before then.
Kennedy and I forget the other one. Florida and Ohio are both populous states with a lot of electoral votes, and have voting demographics comparable to most other states. So if you can't carry one or the other or both, you most likely can't carry enough other states to win.
I went through the list from 1900 till now. From 1900 until the 1920s (ish) there was a strong north/south split, so Florida went Democrat and Ohio went Republican pretty much every election. From WWII onwards, Kennedy won in 1960 without winning either, and in 1992 Clinton(?) won the election winning only one of them. Other than that, the election winner has always won both, since WWII.
That's why I'm saying the demographics were very different back in the 1800s to early 1900s. It was the very strong north/south split.
True, so I guess that presidential candidates always won one or the other or both, but the reasons for that were different as time went on.