State Electoral Trends: Georgia & Florida

Continuing the series of graphs showing state electoral trends since 1960, here are the next two up: Georgia and Florida.

The graphs show how much more or less Democratic each state voted as compared to the national average; thus a +5% means that in a 50/50 national tie, the Democrat would have received 55% in a 2-way race.

Pics and comments below.

Nader vote in 2000:

GA: 1
FL: 2

OK, as with most southern states, the figures for the 1960's are a bit screwy due to suppression of the African-American vote, anti-Johnson machinations in '64, and Wallace's candidacy in '68. In '76 and '80 there's the obligatory big bump for Carter in Georgia, and a modest one for him in Florida.

But while Georgia has zig-zagged a little bit since then, look at Florida's trendline. After reaching a nadir in 1988, it's been steadily going in the Dem direction since. If this keeps up, Jeb is going to have to work overtime to fix this thing.

Previous States:

Alaska, Washington, Oregon
Hawaii, California, Nevada
Idaho, Utah, Wyoming
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado
Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota
Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas
Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana
Arkansas, Louisiana
Mississippi, Alabama
Tennessee, Kentucky

•  Go Florida!

  Follow the line...

  by ZoBai on Wed Oct 06, 2004 at 10:13:57 PM PDT

•  MyDD

  I hope you've checked out MyDD's partisan index.

  by DavidNYC on Wed Oct 06, 2004 at 11:24:54 PM PDT