Cincinnati Bengals Quiz: 1) Most TD passes, season? 2) Most
rushing yards, career? 3) Most receiving yards, career? 4) Coach
who led Bengals to 1981 Super Bowl? Answers below.
Presidential Elections
This only happens every four years, thank God, but it”s our civic
duty to know a little about the past.right? So I came up with
the following tidbits regarding some of our presidential races.
1820 – James Monroe garnered 231 electoral votes to John
Quincy Adams” 1. Monroe was so popular, one elector voted for
Adams simply because he felt that only George Washington
should have the honor of a unanimous election. [Washington
won in such a manner in both 1789 and 1792.]
1824 – John Quincy Adams became president despite receiving
only 30.9% of the electoral college. Andrew Jackson had initially
gained 43.9%. But there were two other candidates and one of
them, Henry Clay, threw his crucial support to Adams when the
election was thrown to the House and Adams was elected.
1860 – Abraham Lincoln took 180 of 303 electoral votes but only
won 39.8% of the popular vote. Of course, there was a split
between the Northern Democrats (Stephen Douglas) and the
Southern Democrats (John Breckinridge).thus Abe”s northern
generated margin of victory.
1872 – Ulysses Grant defeated Horace Greeley handily, 55.6% to
43.9%. Good thing.Greeley died between the general election
and the meeting of the electoral college. Of course, Grant turned
out to be a lousy president..so it was your basic lose-lose.
1876 – What a mess. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes captured
just 48% of the popular vote to Democrat Samuel Tilden”s 51%.
Fraud was rampant, on both sides, and there was a controversy
over which slate of electors in 3 southern “carpetbag” states
should be approved. It wasn”t until March 2, 1877 that the nation
knew who would be inaugurated on March 5. Hayes finally was
the choice.
1880 – James Garfield received 4,454,416 votes (48.5%) to
Winfield Hancock”s 4,444,952 (48.1%). The electoral vote was
not as close, with Garfield taking it 214 to 155.
1884 – Grover Cleveland received 4,874,986 votes (48.5%) to
James Blaine”s 4,851,981 (48.2%). Cleveland won the electoral
vote, 219-182.
1888 – Benjamin Harrison won just 47.9% to Grover Cleveland”s
48.6%, but Harrison won the electoral vote 233-168.the last
time this has occurred. Until Tuesday? [Harrison won the 4
biggest electoral chunks of the time…New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Illinois.]
1892 – James Weaver, the Populist Party candidate, won 8.5% of
the popular vote but garnered 22 electoral votes by winning
Kansas, Idaho, Colorado, and Nevada.
1912 – In the best showing ever by a third party candidate, Teddy
Roosevelt, running under the Progressive Party banner, finished
2nd in both the popular and electoral vote to winner Woodrow
Wilson. Wilson received 41.9%, TR 27.4%, and Republican
William Howard Taft, 23.2%. Wilson kicked butt in the electoral
college, 435 to TR”s 88. Taft only received 8.
1920 – Big time whoopin”. Warren G. Harding won 60.4% to
James Cox”s 34.2%. But Cox, the Democrat, swept the South
(with the exception of Tennessee) so he still had 127 electoral
votes to Harding”s 404.
1924 – Robert LaFollette, the Progressive Party candidate, won
16.6% of the vote as Calvin Coolidge swept into office.
1936 – FDR stomps Alf Landon, 60.8%-36.5%, and 523-8.
1948 – Strom Thurmond (yeah, the same guy…amazing) won
only 2.4% of the popular vote running as the States Rights
candidate, the “Dixiecrats.” But Strom still won 39 electoral
votes as he took Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South
Carolina. Overall, Harry Truman defeated Thomas Dewey,
49.5% to 45% and 303-189.
1960 – see last Friday”s Bar Chat.
1968 – Richard Nixon bested Hubert Humphrey, 43.4%-42.7%
and 301-191. American Independent candidate George Wallace
received 13.5% of the popular vote and won 46 electoral votes by
taking Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
1972 – Richard Nixon slaughters George McGovern, 60.6%-
37.5% and 520-17 as McGovern only takes Massachusetts and
D.C.
1976 – Jimmy Carter beats Gerald Ford, 50.1%-47.9%. Electoral
college race is super tight…297-240.
1992 – Bill Clinton, 43% (370); George Bush, 37% (168); Ross
Perot, 19% (zero).
1996 – Bill Clinton, 49% (379); Bob Dole, 41% (159); Ross
Perot, 8% (zero).
Oh, what the heck…the official StocksandNews prediction for
Tuesday.
George W. Bush, 48.5%; Al Gore, 46.5%; Ralph Nader, 4%; Pat
Buchanan, 1%. But we have another 1888.
Top 3 songs for the week of 11/6/61: #1 “Big Bad John” (Jimmy
Dean) #2 “Runaround Sue” (Dion) #3 “Bristol Stomp” (The
Dovells)
Bengals Quiz Answers: 1) TD passes, season – Ken Anderson,
29, 1981. 2) Rushing yards, career – James Brooks, 6,447.
3) Receiving yards, career – Isaac Curtis, 7,101. 4) Forrest
Gregg coached the Bengals to the ”81 Super Bowl.
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons thrashed Duke for their first win
of the year, 28-26. Wake is now 1-7, Duke 0-9. As we sat there
watching this titanic struggle, we all reached the same conclusion.
Florida State, Wake”s next opponent, is just lucky they didn”t face
us on this particular day.
Next Bar Chat, Wednesday.
