State Electoral Trends: New Jersey & New York

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

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:

NJ: 3
NY: 4

Though NY has always been Dem territory compared to the US average, it's been much more the case in the last two elections. Same goes for NJ, which trended slightly Republican through the 70's and 80's.

If Kerry can match Clinton & Gore's numbers in these two states, they're probably locked up for a long time.

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