Donald Trump will be the first president-elect who didn’t carry his home state since 1844, when Tennessee voted against James Polk. Thanks to Nancy Brune for this observation.
However, since 1844, two presidents running for re-election failed to carry their home states. They were Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and Herbert Hoover in 1932.
Didn’t Mitt Romney lose Michigan and.Massachusetts two states he lived in .
Romney didn’t become President-Elect
When was the last time both major party presidential candidates were residents of the same state? Was it 1944?
Yes. Oddly enough, it was the same state as this year.
One of the most fascinating pieces of trivia is that the Democratic Party has never nominated anyone for either president or vice-president who was a resident of any of the 13 western states.
Obama is from Hawaii, that’s the MOST western state
I think the conventional way of classifying presidents and presidential candidates is by what state they were living in when they were nominated. So I consider Obama an Illinois president. Not only was he living there when he was nominated, he was an office-holder from Illinois and no other state.
No one ever classifies Calvin Coolidge as a Vermont president. He had been Governor of Massachusetts and no one pays any attention to where he was born. George W. Bush was born in Connecticut but everyone always classes him as a Texan. And if George Romney had been elected president, he would have been classed as a Michigan president, not a Mexican.
Attributing a home state to a President based on where they were living at when they were nominated may make a great deal of sense, but it probably makes even more sense to attribute it to the state in which they spent most of their entire life, especially so if they were elected to an office. I would think of Richard Nixon as a Californian when he was elected President, disregarding the fact that he lived in the New York/New Jersey area during much of 1963-1968. The Wikipedia article about the presidential election of 2016 claims that Trump is the fourth President to lose his home state, mentioning Richard Nixon’s win in 1968 as the third time it happened. But that article makes that claim based on Nixon’s residence when he was elected in ’68 – not his original home for most of his life, the state where he got elected to Congress from, and where he ran for Governor in ’62.
ONE more MINORITY RULE Prez [with ALL of the SUPER danger involved} — regardless of all of the nonstop trivia.
Perhaps Trump will have a residence in each gerrymander State (or at least in the gerrymander States he won) for the same number of days — 365 or 366/ 50 [or about 30] = X. Solve for X.