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| - The United States presidential election of 2072 was the 72nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2072. The Republican Party's nomination was eventually won by Governor Lewis K. Smith of Kansas, who ran on a policy of fiscal and foreign conservatism against incumbent President and Democratic candidate Edward B. Nicholson. Smith, however, was handicapped by his poor governing record in Kansas, his low favorability ratings, limited support from his own party, the perception of many voters that he was a right-wing extremist, and the sexual scandal involving his vice-presidential running mate, Senator Jackie Levinston of Indiana.
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| - The United States presidential election of 2072 was the 72nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2072. The Republican Party's nomination was eventually won by Governor Lewis K. Smith of Kansas, who ran on a policy of fiscal and foreign conservatism against incumbent President and Democratic candidate Edward B. Nicholson. Smith, however, was handicapped by his poor governing record in Kansas, his low favorability ratings, limited support from his own party, the perception of many voters that he was a right-wing extremist, and the sexual scandal involving his vice-presidential running mate, Senator Jackie Levinston of Indiana. Capitalizing upon a strong economy and foreign policy successes in both Korea and the Congo, Nicholson easily won reelection to the Presidency. He won 61.1% of the popular vote, tied with Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 total as the highest percentage of the popular vote won by a presidential candidate since 1820, and the largest percentage won since Johnson. It marked the first time since Ronald Reagan's landslide reelection in 1984 that a candidate from either party won by a double-digit margin in the popular vote. He received nearly thirty-four million more popular votes then Smith, the widest margin of any presidential election in U.S. history. Nicholson carried 41 states and the District of Columbia, capturing 486 electoral votes. Smith won the remaining nine states and Nebraska's 3rd congressional district, earning 52 electoral votes. This election marked the first time since 1988 that a candidate from either party won with more then 400 electoral votes, and the first time since 1984 that a candidate captured at least 90% of the Electoral College. This election set a number of electoral milestones for the United States. Nicholson became the first Democrat to carry Nebraska and South Dakota since LBJ in 1964; only the second ever (after Johnson) to carry Alaska; the first to carry Arkansas, Louisiana and Kentucky since Bill Clinton in 1996; and only the second Democrat of the century to carry Montana and North Dakota. Nicholson also became the first Democrat since LBJ to carry both non college-educated and college-educated whites, to sweep all age demographics and income groups, and to win a majority of Protestant votes. He was also the first Democrat, since Jimmy Carter in 1976, to win the majority of the nation's counties, and the first since Clinton in 1996 to win at least one county in every state. Since 2072, no candidate has equaled or surpassed Nicholson's percentage of the popular vote, or his performance in the Electoral College.
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