Talk:1940 United States presidential election

Electoral picture peculiarity
Why is the graphic depiction of electoral votes skewed? Rarely nowadays does one see democratic votes colored red and and republican votes blue. --maru (talk) Contribs 20:52, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


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Wendell Willkie
Does anyone have a source on Willkie's serving as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1932? He was a delegate to the 1924 Democratic National Convention, being elected from Ohio's 14th congressional district. At that time, he was living in Akron. Ohio Elects the President p. 95. Chronicler3 — Preceding undated comment added 01:00, 21 June 2006 (UTC)


 * For Hanford MacNider, the name itself should be "clickable", since there is an article about him in wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidlroot (talk • contribs) 20:51, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't have the book in front of me, but I believe that Herbert Parmet's Never Again: A President Runs for a third term includes a reference to Willkie having been a Democratic delegate in 1932, and mentions him supporting FDR in the fall campaign against Hoover. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.145.229.162 (talk) 21:46, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

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Better Photo Needed
Could someone who knows how replace the low-quality photo of Willkie with a better one? I searched Google and found several photos which, IMO, are superior to the one currently in use. Just a thought. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.145.229.162 (talk) 04:09, 18 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Also, it seems a bit out of continuity to put a photo of FDR taken in 1944 at the top of the page for the 1940 election.THD3 (talk) 20:20, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Electoral Map Is Inaccurate
According to the electoral-vote map Willkie carried Wyoming, but in fact President Roosevelt, and not Willkie, carried the state. The map should be corrected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.145.229.162 (talk) 08:09, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Wyoming results do not match with electoral map.
The electoral map shows Willkie as the winner in Wyoming, but the results show ~52% for FDR and ~46% for Willkie. Can someone fix this? --67.189.254.208 (talk) 06:15, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Electoral map problem
"Willkie" is misspelt "Wilkie" on the map. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.116.71.119 (talk) 21:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 09:38, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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