Kyrsten Sinema is one of the few politicians in the USA who is as close to openly atheist as you can get

(well I think there are openly atheist ones in small time local seats in Massachusetts and the like)

Getting back to Virginia, having Stewart in a friendly environment over in Prince William County (a county which Gillespie lost in his close Senate race in 2014 which overall was lost by less than a point) is a good sign for potential in November.

The Democrats have truly delivered the Republicans a gift in coming out in favour of abolishing ICE.

Every Republican should capitalise immediately.

wow, you know what I just learned?

LBJ won more votes in 1964 in New York than Hillary did in 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_New_York,_1964

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_New_York,_2016

4,913,156 (in 1964) to 4,556,124 (2016)

he even won more than Obama did in 2008 !

which was 4,804,945

Yep.

He won the largest contested landslide in US history.

NY admittedly has a very slow rate of population growth due to negative migration intakes.

But yes, he won by a landslide.

And the next election, we won over 40 states in a landslide.

yeah, it's just an interesting fact to me because that was over 50 years ago

yet he did better in terms of raw vote count than candidates today

And he won every county and won a larger popular vote percentage

First time in a hundred years that someone didn't carry their home state while winning the election.

I mean, I was aware that LBJ in 1964 has the high score in terms of popular vote, but I didn't expect him to outperform current numbers

Huh?

@[Lex] you're talking about Trump in 2016?

Yep.

It's not the first in a hundred years.

Woodrow Wilson was the last person.

1916.

Nope.

George W. Bush

Born in Connecticut

Same with George H.W. Bush, born in Massachusetts

Home doesn't mean "born In".

And Richard Nixon, whose state of residence was New York

You're right actually.

there are some peculiar cases when it comes to 'home state'

Eisenhower's home state in 1952 was New York. Apparently he was President of Columbia University

This is a false statistic.

Wikipedia as per usual.

Richard Nixon's home state was New York in 1968 because he lived there

Yep.

for some reason, Eisenhower's home state in 1956 was Pennsylvania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1956