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[edit] Why no McCarthy running mate?

Why didn't Eugene McCarthy have a running mate? Neither his page nor here explains it.

And does anyone feel we should make mention of the election in fiction somewhere (maybe not on this page itself), such as the All Night Party's candidate? Timrollpickering 22:43, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Comment. McCarthy favored the abolition of the office of Vice President, so he did not have an official nominee. Since several states required someone to appear on the ballot in the slot, each state committee chose a stand-in. In Ohio, it was Dennis M. Anderson. "Ohio Elects the President" (Mansfield OH: Bookmasters, Inc., 2000), p. 149. Chronicler3 21:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC) Chronicler3

[edit] Richard Nixon

Recently, SNIyer1 added the following sentence to the introduction:

Nixon didn't run because he was disqualified by the 22nd Amendment, since he had been elected twice.

This bugged me because it implies that Nixon might have been a candidate for election had he not been term-limited. The fact of the matter is that Richard Nixon was politically radioactive after the Watergate scandal, so it's unimportant that Nixon was term-limited. If that's not true, then what's keeping us from adding "Nixon couldn't run because he was disqualified..." in the introduction to each election from 1980 to 1992? It's not as if Nixon was the incumbent; that was Gerald Ford.

In any case, I have placed a band-aid on the above sentence, when what I want to do is eliminate it entirely from the introduction. I'm hoping that a better solution will come along. In the meantime, if anybody has any ideas of how to rewrite this so that Nixon's term-limitation is actually relevant to this election, please do so. Thanks, — DLJessup 00:29, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to go ahead and eliminate my band-aid solution. — DLJessup 00:35, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Nixon was disqualified from running in 1976 and in subsequent elections because he had been elected twice. -- SNIyer12 22:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Electoral picture peculiarity

Why is the graphic depiction of electoral votes skewed? Rarely nowadays does one see democratic votes colored red and and republican votes blue. --maru (talk) Contribs 20:53, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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— DLJessup (talk) 21:48, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Maybe because this is about an election from 1976, and until 1980, the Democrats were represented by red and the Republicans were represented by blue. The colors should match what they were then, not now. 142.177.154.189 (talk) 01:32, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Third Candidate

I'm surprised there's no mention of the fact that this is one of the few elections in history where more than 2 candidates received electoral votes. (Even if Reagan only got 1) How many other times in history has this ever happened? Lurlock 04:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

It's really mostly a footnote than a relevance because Reagan got his vote from a faithless elector, who cast his vote as a protest that he knew would not affect the election's outcome. Reagan did not win any popular votes outside of write-ins -- indeed, he didn't appear on the general election ballot in any states -- and did not campaign in the general election. --Jfruh (talk) 05:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red and Blue states

I think that the electoral maps on wikipedia should have some consistancy in their colors. On this article's map Jimmy Carter is denoted by the color red, but in the 1980 election article he is denoted by the color blue. If the colors are going to be different between articles, then they might as well be green and yellow.(Lucas(CA) 08:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Map colors wrong

The election map colors are incorrect (they were not yet standardized in 1976). To avoid confusion and maintain consistency, Democratic states should be Blue, Republican states should be Red. Anyone object to fixing this?Mobrienil (talk) 22:00, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

I, for one, object. These are historical records, and the history of such changes should be recorded, not forgotten or ignored. --patton1138 (talk) 17:05, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:MiltonShapp.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:22, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] can we just make it the MODERN color scheme?

even tho yea, the old scheme was red dem blue reps, could the maps of all elections with the old scheme just be changed? it is too confusing for people —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tallicfan20 (talk • contribs) 02:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A possible mistake

The article sais: "The 1976 Republican National Convention was the last time a presidential convention opened without the nominee having already been decided in the primaries". Maybe I am misunderstanding, but this sentence reffers to a convention of either party, correct? If so, this is untrue. The 1980 democratic convention was also undecided between president Carter and senator Kennedy when it opened. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.138.229.106 (talk) 07:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)