Statistics for Home States of Losing U.S. Presidential Candidates

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Answer Stats

Year	Candidate	State	% Correct
2020	Donald Trump	Florida	95%
1980	Jimmy Carter	Georgia	95%
1992	George H.W. Bush	Texas	95%
2008	John McCain	Arizona	93%
2012	Mitt Romney	Massachusetts	93%
2016	Hillary Clinton	New York	93%
1960	Richard Nixon	California	86%
1968	George Wallace	Alabama	79%
1984	Walter Mondale	Minnesota	79%
2000	Al Gore	Tennessee	77%
2004	John Kerry	Massachusetts	74%
1988	Michael Dukakis	Massachusetts	72%
1976	Gerald Ford	Michigan	72%
1912	Theodore Roosevelt	New York	67%
1992	Ross Perot	Texas	67%
1796	Thomas Jefferson	Virginia	67%
1964	Barry Goldwater	Arizona	60%
1800	John Adams	Massachusetts	60%
1996	Bob Dole	Kansas	58%
1816	John Quincy Adams	Massachusetts	58%
1828	John Quincy Adams	Massachusetts	58%
1968	Hubert Humphrey	Minnesota	58%
1928	Al Smith	New York	56%
1944, 1948	Thomas Dewey	New York	53%
1824	Andrew Jackson	Tennessee	53%
1932	Herbert Hoover	California	51%
1812	DeWitt Clinton	New York	51%
1888	Grover Cleveland	New York	51%
1840	Martin Van Buren	New York	51%
1860	Stephen Douglas	Illinois	49%
1848	Martin Van Buren	New York	49%
1808	George Clinton	New York	49%
1872	Horace Greeley	New York	49%
1924	Robert La Follette	Wisconsin	49%
1912	William Taft	Ohio	47%
1952, 1956	Adlai Stevenson	Illinois	44%
1868	Horatio Seymour	New York	44%
1940	Wendell Wilkie	New York	44%
1876	Samuel Tilden	New York	44%
1892	Benjamin Harrison	Indiana	42%
1832	Henry Clay	Kentucky	42%
1824	Henry Clay	Kentucky	42%
1916	Charles Evans Hughes	New York	42%
1836	William Henry Harrison	Ohio	42%
1972	George McGovern	South Dakota	42%
1936	Alf Landon	Kansas	40%
1844	Henry Clay	Kentucky	40%
1816	Rufus King	New York	40%
1904	Alton B. Parker	New York	40%
1856	Millard Fillmore	New York	40%
1896, 1900	William Jennings Bryan	Nebraska	37%
1908	William Jennings Bryan	Nebraska	37%
1920	James Cox	Ohio	37%
1860	John Breckinridge	Kentucky	35%
1804, 1808	Charles Pinckney	South Carolina	35%
1884	James Blaine	Maine	30%
1864	George McClellan	New Jersey	28%
1856	John Fremont	California	26%
1860	John Bell	Tennessee	26%
1924	John Davis	West Virginia	26%
1824	William Crawford	Georgia	21%
1848	Lewis Cass	Michigan	19%
1852	Winfield Scott	New Jersey	16%
1880	Winfield Hancock	Pennsylvania	14%