THE GREAT AMERICAN POLITICAL ROADTRIP: HAWAII AND IDAHO
HAWAII
The first time Hawaii voted as a state was the first, and as of now only time its electoral votes were decisive in a presidential election. In 1960, despite predictions that Nixon would carry the new state – a Republican bastion as a territory – John F. Kennedy won it by 141 votes out of 185,000 cast, an ups…
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