Statistics for Election of 1880 Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Their party	Democrat	100%
Their party	Republican	100%
Victor	James Garfield	83%
Their home state	Ohio	83%
Their running mate	Chester Arthur	67%
State that the Democrats shockingly won despite vote splitting in the republican's favor	Virginia	50%
Opponent	Winfield Hancock	50%
State with the smallest margin (0.06)	California	33%
Their party	Green Back	33%
State with the largest margin (41.79)	Vermont	33%
Policy that the Republicans used to convince northerners not to vote Democratic and blaming them for the Civil War	Waving a Bloody Shirt	33%
Who assassinated the victor a few months after the election	Charles Guiteau	17%
Major issue revolving around how the US Dollar should work	Gold Standard	17%
Their home state	Pennsylvania	17%
Their running mate	William English	17%
Their running mate	Barzillai Chambers	0%
Before the assassin got into politics, he lived in a free love commune in New York. However no one there liked him and they called him _______ ___ ___ (Hint: a pun based on his last name)	Charles Get Out	0%
The victor was assassinated over not giving the assassin one of two jobs he wanted. Name either	Consular to Paris / Consular to Austria	0%
Their home state	Iowa	0%
3rd place candidate	James B Weaver	0%
Other major third party	Prohibition	0%