The lowest Electoral College score for any candidate was four years prior to that, when former Vice President Walter Mondale won just one state and Washington, D.C., for a total of 13 votes, against ...
The state’s voters have favored Republicans before, though. Both Ronald Reagan and Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, emerged victorious on Election Day with the help of Michigan’s electoral votes, ...
The uncertainty stretched even longer after the 2000 election, when five weeks elapsed before the Supreme Court settled the contested election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.