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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 9:58:41 GMT
Retiring incumbent governor of California, Jerry Brown, has twice succeeded a Republican who used to be an actor prior to entering politics: 1st Time, in 1974/75, Brown was preceeded by Ronald Reagan 2nd Time, in 2010/11, Brown was preceeded by Arnold Schwarzenegger I sincerely doubt that Arnie will ever get to run for president though. Arnold Schwarzenegger vs John Kerry in 2004 would’ve been an interesting matchup.
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Post by johnloony on Nov 2, 2018 19:20:01 GMT
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Post by pragmaticidealist on Nov 3, 2018 17:05:54 GMT
Retiring incumbent governor of California, Jerry Brown, has twice succeeded a Republican who used to be an actor prior to entering politics: 1st Time, in 1974/75, Brown was preceeded by Ronald Reagan 2nd Time, in 2010/11, Brown was preceeded by Arnold Schwarzenegger I sincerely doubt that Arnie will ever get to run for president though. Both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan faced Jerry's father, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, in a California gubernatorial election prior to their presidencies. The former was defeated by him in 1962 (after which Nixon made his famous 'last press conference') while the latter defeated him in a landslide in 1966 (and, as you state, ended up being succeeded by Pat's son). Incidentally Pat was also the name of Nixon's wife.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2018 15:44:17 GMT
Ross Perot came within 5% of winning Maine's 2nd Congressional District in 1992 - and with it an electoral vote!
The results were Clinton: 38% Perot: 33% Bush: 29%
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Nov 14, 2018 1:49:47 GMT
I don’t know where else to post this
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 10:26:32 GMT
All of California’s counties were won by 1 candidate in 1920 and 1936.
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 21, 2018 11:39:21 GMT
All of California’s counties were won by 1 candidate in 1920 and 1936. Didn't know that FDR swept it in 1936, it wasn't normally the Dem stronghold it is now in those times.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 23, 2018 15:14:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 19:30:24 GMT
I ran for Secretary of the Oxford Union yesterday and polled 255 votes (18.0% of the vote).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2018 16:58:30 GMT
The Conservatives got a higher vote share in Islington South & Finsbury than in Croydon North (a seat which would've voted Tory in 1992 on current boundaries).
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Post by greenhert on Dec 7, 2018 0:36:43 GMT
In the once rock-solid Labour stronghold of Stoke-on-Trent, Labour won only 4 seats in the 2000 council elections there and it was the first time they finished as low as third in any ward of Stoke. This proved to be a prelude to their dramatic loss of overall control in 2002.
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Post by John Chanin on Dec 7, 2018 7:35:22 GMT
In the once rock-solid Labour stronghold of Stoke-on-Trent, Labour won only 4 seats in the 2000 council elections there and it was the first time they finished as low as third in any ward of Stoke. This proved to be a prelude to their dramatic loss of overall control in 2002. I'm not sure what former Labour voters in Stoke-on-Trent actually want, because they didn't seem to like Blair very much, judging by the huge drop in turnout while he was PM, but they don't seem to be particularly fond of Corbyn either given the fact that the party has just lost a seat in the city for the first time since 1931. It's more general than that. They voted for a directly elected mayor, hated the result, and went back to a normal council. They elected a whole bunch of independents, hated the result, and went back to the main parties. Basically the voters of Stoke are very unhappy, very disillusioned, and haven't a clue what they want, so long as it is different. But given something different, since they are basically conservative, they don't like it.
I think we will see a lot more of this, not just in Stoke, but right across Europe.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2018 7:42:44 GMT
Labour lost control of both Mansfield and Stoke-on-Trent councils in 2015 as it happens.
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Post by The Bishop on Dec 7, 2018 12:01:48 GMT
In the once rock-solid Labour stronghold of Stoke-on-Trent, Labour won only 4 seats in the 2000 council elections there and it was the first time they finished as low as third in any ward of Stoke. This proved to be a prelude to their dramatic loss of overall control in 2002. 2002 was of course an all-out election, and Labour actually did a lot better than two years previously. (maybe the most remarkable thing about the latter result is that Labour had swept all 60 seats in the inaugural unitary election just four years earlier)
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Post by froome on Dec 7, 2018 12:05:29 GMT
I'm not sure what former Labour voters in Stoke-on-Trent actually want, because they didn't seem to like Blair very much, judging by the huge drop in turnout while he was PM, but they don't seem to be particularly fond of Corbyn either given the fact that the party has just lost a seat in the city for the first time since 1931. It's more general than that. They voted for a directly elected mayor, hated the result, and went back to a normal council. They elected a whole bunch of independents, hated the result, and went back to the main parties. Basically the voters of Stoke are very unhappy, very disillusioned, and haven't a clue what they want, so long as it is different. But given something different, since they are basically conservative, they don't like it.
I think we will see a lot more of this, not just in Stoke, but right across Europe.
This is a fairly good summary of English politics right now.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Dec 7, 2018 13:00:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2018 14:06:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2018 14:22:09 GMT
George H. W. Bush was the last Republican to carry the following states in a presidential election:
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Vermont.
At the same time, Bush 43 won 2 states his father didn’t: Iowa and West Virginia.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 7, 2018 14:40:01 GMT
George H.W. Bush was the last Presidential candidate from any party to get over 400 electoral college votes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2018 17:10:46 GMT
Ronald Reagan was the last Republican to win the San Francisco Bay Area and George H. W. Bush was the last Republican to win a county there (Napa).
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