by John Sexton 31 Oct 2012 280 post a comment
Here's one more historical curiosity to observe this election cycle. Since election day was standardized in 1845 there have been 6 presidential elections held on November 6th and Republicans have won all six. That means next Tuesday, the 7th Presidential election held on this date, will either break or uphold a streak that began in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
If this had any bearing, R's would have been fighting to make sure that the elections stay on the 6th to unfairly win vs. trying to keep Democrats from the polls to unfairly win. Trumped by logic.
We need to get 30 or more Nov. 6 elections before we have a decent sample size enough to begin to control for other variables and even then, we have quite a few other variables.
We don't let women become president.....and I bet that continues, the sample size is large enough.
Left handed presidents? Considering lefthandedness used to be repressed in schools, I wonder how many POTUS were actually left handed, lately it seems like left handers dominate. I wonder why, since they are such a minority.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.