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Would any Democrat other than Grover Cleveland have lost to James G. Blaine in 1884? I'm asking because Grover Cleveland was New York's incumbent Governor, and yet even he only won New York state by slightly over 1,000 votes, or around 0.10%, in spite of his home state advantage. So, just how much worse would any other Democratic presidential candidate in 1884, especially a non-New Yorker, would have actually fared against Blaine in New York that year?

Also, what I'm surprised by is that Democrats won almost every partisan statewide election in New York between 1882 and 1891, always with significantly larger margins than Cleveland's victory margin over Blaine in New York in 1884. Just why was Cleveland's victory margin over Blaine in New York in 1884 so narrow, anyway?

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 by: WolfBear - Fri, 28 May 2021 21:15 UTC

On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 2:08:28 PM UTC-7, WolfBear wrote:
> Would any Democrat other than Grover Cleveland have lost to James G. Blaine in 1884? I'm asking because Grover Cleveland was New York's incumbent Governor, and yet even he only won New York state by slightly over 1,000 votes, or around 0.10%, in spite of his home state advantage. So, just how much worse would any other Democratic presidential candidate in 1884, especially a non-New Yorker, would have actually fared against Blaine in New York that year?
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> Also, what I'm surprised by is that Democrats won almost every partisan statewide election in New York between 1882 and 1891, always with significantly larger margins than Cleveland's victory margin over Blaine in New York in 1884. Just why was Cleveland's victory margin over Blaine in New York in 1884 so narrow, anyway?

What I find interesting is that in 1888, New York Governor David B. Hill outperformed Grover Cleveland in New York state by a little more than a dozen thousand votes. Could something similar have occurred back in 1884 had New York state (purely hypothetically) had a gubernatorial election that year instead of in 1885?

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