Illinois Government Research no. 43 1976: As Goes Illinois... The State as a Political Microcosm of the Nation

Przybylski, James

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Illinois Government Research no. 43 1976: As Goes Illinois... The State as a Political Microcosm of the Nation

Author(s)

Przybylski, James

Issue Date

1976-08

Keyword(s)

• Illinois government
• State government

Abstract

"The old saying has it that in presidential elections ""as goes Maine, so goes the nation."" While this statement may have once been valid, over the last forty years the bellwether nature of the state of Maine has been open to serious challenge. In fact, in the last ten presidential elections Maine has cast its electoral vote for the losing candidate six times. The question of which state most closely follows national patterns in presidential elections is an interesting one, however, especially in this presidential year. If one could find a state in which national presidential returns were closely mirrored over a period of years — and if one had some idea why this state-national parallelism existed — that state's returns would provide not only a clue to the national outcome, but also some reasons for it."

Publisher

Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Illinois Government Research, no. 43 (August 1976)

ISSN

0195-7783

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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