Black and Latino voters shifting to the GOP: More normal than you think

In the 1912 presidential election, incumbent Republican William Howard Taft finished third behind Democrat Woodrow Wilson and former Republican President Teddy Roosevelt, who ran as a third-party candidate. Taft won only two states’ electoral votes, Utah and Vermont, which were the most Republican in voting patterns.

Half of that last set of facts would seem exceedingly strange today. While Utah remains dominated by the GOP, Vermont now has sent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VA) to the Senate for decades. It hasn’t voted for the Republican presidential candidate since 1988 and will certainly go overwhelmingly for Vice President Kamala Harris on Nov. 5.