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This 5 page paper examines elections between 1920 and 2000. The significance of choosing a president from a particular state is discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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for geographic reasons. In other words, a presidential candidate is from the North so he chooses a Southerner. It is a well known strategy, but does is really work?
How helpful have major-party Vice Presidential candidates been in terms of carrying their home states for the national ticket? First, it should be said that they have been very
helpful. Yes, it is a good strategy, but when evaluating data on all of the Vice Presidents who ran between 1920 and 2000, one sees that while with the exception
of Henry Wallace and Spiro Agnew, virtually every other president captured their own state, some states are better than others. CHART Vice Presidential Candidates and Their Home States
HOME STATE YEAR VICE PRESIDENT HOME PARTY ELECTORAL VOTES 1920 Calvin Coolidge Illinois R 29 1924 Charles Dawes Illinois R 29 1928 Charles Curtis Kansas R 10 1932 John
Garner Texas D 23 1936 John Garner Texas D 23 1940 Henry Wallace Iowa D 0 1944 Harry Truman Missouri D 15 1948 Alben Barkley Kentucky D 11 1952 Richard Nixon California R 32 1956 Richard Nixon California R 32 1960 Lyndon Johnson Texas D 24 1964 Hubert Humphrey Minnesota D 10 1968 Spiro Agnew Maryland R 0 1972 Spiro
Agnew Maryland R 10 Gerald Ford Michigan R N/A Nelson Rockefeller New York R N/A 1976 Walter Mondale Minnesota D 10 1980 George Bush Texas R 29 1984 George Bush Texas R 29 1988 Dan Quayle Indiana R 12 1992 Al Gore Tennessee D 11 1996 Al Gore Tennessee D 11 2000 Dick Cheney Wyoming R 3 Source: Data compiled in part from The 45
Vice Presidents web site. In other words, if the game is about the electoral vote, it pays to choose a president from a state with a
lot of them. Interestingly, there have been no V.P.s from New York with the exception of Rockefeller who was never elected. That said, more than an average amount of Vice
Presidents were certainly chosen from states that do contain a great deal of electoral votes. In the 21 elections studied, two were from Illinois that boasts 29 electoral votes, one
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