Question on Chuck Todd: Who was the last Democrat to win 400 Electoral Votes?

[BlueStateBlue]

Wonder why they're asking this question? Maybe they suspect that there will be a new record?

Wouldn't THAT be a piece of news???

[Fawke Em]

1. There's no possible way for Obama to do that.

I just played with the map. Even if he sweeps all of the swing states, it would just be at 347. I somehow don't see him breaking into any of the red states.

[Third Doctor]

2. Wasn't it LBJ?

[BlueStateBlue]

3. Yes, they said LBJ n/t

[TexasCPA]

4. 2008 was a much better chance of that than 2012

Four years ago adding MO, GA, and AZ would have put us there. I think we would have to win Texas to hit 400 in the future.

[NCarolinawoman]

5. Good old days before Fox "News" was when this could be done n/t

[onenote]

6. Not really.

Fox News launched in 1996. In four elections since then, the Democrats have won two (with 379 and 365 EVs) and the repubs have won two (with 271 and 286 EVs). Before Fox News, going back to 1912, Democrats have topped 400 EVs six times -- four times by FDR, once by LBJ and once by Wilson. The repubs topped 400 EVs eight times - Bush I, Reagan (twice), Nixon, Eisenhower (twice), Hoover and Harding (once each).

Hard to see how Fox News has impacted these results. The main reason that Democrats have had a hard time getting to 400 EVs since 1964 is that the south moved from the Democratic column to the repub column with the enactment of Civil Rights legislation and the Nixon "Southern Strategy".