An e-mail I wrote was read on today’s Talk of the Nation<\/i>! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Neal Conan asked the question — What state has gone the longest without voting for a Republican in the presidential election?<\/p>\n
I sent a reply via e-mail:<\/p>\n
Minnesota would be the state that’s gone longest without voting for a Republican. It was the only state that didn’t vote for Reagan in 1984.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
After taking a phone call and reading other e-mails, all of which were wrong, Neal Conan<\/a> read my e-mail in full.<\/p>\n
And I was right. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I didn’t even have to go to Google. I just knew<\/i> that.<\/p>\n
Minnesota was the only state that Walter Mondale won in 1984. And since then, they’ve gone Democratic ever since.<\/p>\n
Neal Conan even stumbled over pronouncing my name.<\/p>\n
Neal Conan, by the way, has a fantastic radio voice. He also wrote a funny and exciting book on his season as a baseball radio announcer for the independent Atlantic League, Play by Play<\/i>, which I highly recommend.<\/p>\n
Political geek-fu!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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