{"id":1057,"date":"2004-07-17T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T05:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2004-07-17T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2004-07-18T05:24:28","slug":"kansas-voting-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/07\/17\/kansas-voting-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Voting Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This query was placed in the Reason Magazine blog…<\/p>\n

Regarding Tom Frank’s book What’s the Matter with Kansas<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If what’s wrong with Kansas is that they elect Right-leaning Republicans… when was anything right<\/i> with Kansas?<\/p>\n

2000:
\nBush: 58.04% 6
\nGore: 37.24%
\n1996
\nDole 54.29%
\nClinton 36.08%
\n1992
\nBush 38.88%
\nClinton 33.74%
\n1988
\nBush 55.79%
\nDukakis 42.56%
\n1984
\nReagan 66.27%
\nMondale 32.60%
\n1980
\nReagan 57.85%
\nCarter 33.29%
\n1976
\nFord 52.49%
\nCarter 44.94%
\n1972
\nNixon 67.66%
\nMcGovern 29.50%
\n1968
\nNixon 54.84%
\nHumphrey 34.72%
\n1964
\nJohnson 54.09%
\nGoldwater 45.06%
\n1960
\nNixon 60.45%
\nKennedy 39.10%
\n1956
\nEisenhower 65.44%
\nStevenson 34.21%
\n1952
\nEisenhower 68.77%
\nStevenson 30.50%
\n1948
\nDewey 53.63%
\nTruman 44.61%
\n1944
\nDewey 60.25%
\nRoosevelt 39.18%
\n1940
\nWillkie 56.86%
\nRoosevelt 42.40%
\n1936
\nRoosevelt 53.67%
\nLandon 45.95%
\n1932
\nRoosevelt 53.56%
\nHoover 44.13%
\n1928
\nHoover 72.02%
\nSmith 27.06%
\n1924
\nCoolidge 61.54%
\nDavis 23.60%
\n1920
\nHarding 64.75%
\nCox 32.52%
\n1916
\nWilson 49.95%
\nHughes 44.09%
\n1912
\nWilson 39.30%
\nRoosevelt 32.88%
\n1908
\nTaft 52.46%
\nBryan 42.88%
\n1904
\nRoosevelt 64.81%
\nParker 26.23%
\n1900
\nMcKinley 52.56%
\nBryan 45.96%
\n1896
\nBryan 51.32%
\nMcKinley 47.63% <\/p>\n

You have to go back to 1896 through 1912 to see the more clearly “progressive” candidate garner the Kansas vote noticably above the national average (and even that is befuddled by the 1900 election of McKinley. owned by more corporate interests than just about any president in American history.) Other than that, whatever’s wrong with Kansas has been wrong before the Cultural Shifts of the 60s and the subsequent backlash, and was wrong with Kansas as Roosevelt introduced his New Deal Reforms (in what is the largest Electoral Landslide in US History*, Roosevelt really only squeaked by Landon in 1936.)<\/p>\n

Looking at the late nineteenth century voting record, through the post Lincoln era that historians have tended to think of as stacked with unimpressive presidents, I’m struck by how often a third party pretty well threw the election either to the Democratic and Republican Party in Kansas, but here it seems to be a 50-50 state.<\/p>\n

*for the nay-sayers who’d look at Reagan’s 49 state victory over Mondale as the pinacle of Presidential Landslides: Reagan: 525 ev, 97.58% Mondale: 13 ev, 2.42% … Roosevelt: 523 ev 98.49% ; Landon: 8 ev 1.51%. Landon won Maine and Vermont. Now, here’s a question: What’s Right With Vermont?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This query was placed in the Reason Magazine blog… Regarding Tom Frank’s book What’s the Matter with Kansas: If what’s wrong with Kansas is that they elect Right-leaning Republicans… when was anything right with Kansas? 2000: Bush: 58.04% 6 Gore: 37.24% 1996 Dole 54.29% Clinton 36.08% 1992 Bush 38.88% Clinton 33.74% 1988 Bush 55.79% Dukakis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-regurgitates-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}