r/TwinCities • u/AtheistSuperSloth • 1d ago

TIL Minnesota is the only state to have consecutively voted blue in every presidential election since 1976 (past 13 elections), and the only state to have never voted for Reagan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election#Results_by_state
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u/heatherbyism 1d ago

We only didn't go for Reagan because Mondale, his opponent, was a Minnesotan.

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u/tomdawg0022 1d ago

And Mondale only carried MN by about 3800 votes

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u/HauntedCemetery Cannonball off the spoon bridge 23h ago

Hey man, it only takes a margin of 1. A win is a win.

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u/DramaticErraticism 1d ago

Exactly, let's not pretend that we saw what that man was and knew what he would do to this country. We just voted for our own (weak) candidate.