One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State

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1. Which is the only state that voted Democratic in all seven presidential elections from 1980 to 2004? New York Minnesota Massachusetts Hawaii

2. In the twelve presidential elections from 1960 to 2004, did California vote more often for the Democrat or the Republican? Answer: ( Democrat or Republican, D or R)

3. Which of these four was the last Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia? Al Gore Bill Clinton Lyndon Johnson Jimmy Carter

4. Eight presidential candidates are shown below: which two won 49 states? Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan George Washington and James Monroe

5. Which of the following was the last third party presidential candidate to win a state? George Wallace John Anderson Ross Perot Strom Thurmond

6. Which of these four states did NOT vote for the Republican in every presidential election from 1968 to 2004? Wyoming Oklahoma Montana Virginia

7. From 1980 to 2004, which of these four states voted for the winning presidential candidate every time? Alaska Colorado Nevada New Hampshire

8. Which of the following has voted the most consistently for a single party's presidential candidates? Washington DC Alaska Hawaii Arizona

9. From the end of reconstruction until the Republican southern strategy of the late 1960s, the "solid south" was a Democratic stronghold. Who was the first post-reconstruction Republican to receive the vote of a former Confederate state? Warren Harding Dwight Eisenhower Herbert Hoover Barry Goldwater

10. What do Al Gore, George McGovern, Al Smith and William Howard Taft have in common? All of these They won only two states in an election They lost their home state in a presidential election They won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote, thereby losing the presidency