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Political trivia quiz What women, if any, have been part of a US Presidential team garnering a least one vote in the Electoral College?
Tony Suruda got it: It was the LP ticket of John Hospers and Toni Nathan in 1972. She took one electoral vote, making her (as far as we know) the first woman to ever do so.
Ed King has added the second: The Democrat’s ticket of Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 with 13 electoral votes. They came from Minnesota and DC.
Now some more LP triivia: What state was the vote from?
Sam Duncan got it. It was indeed Virginia.
Now, What was the back story behind the vote? (I will admit that even my memory is a bit hazy on the details).
For extra credit, since I do not know the answer: Are we correct that she was the first? This is perhaps more a James Taranto type question since he is an expert on US Presidential elections.
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Toni (Theodora) Nathan of course.
Now if Toni had been from Alaska and had had her picture taken with a caribou that she had shot she would surely have received more than one electoral vote. She might have won the election.
Thanks for the memories
A libertarian from the States…
I thought the only electorial vote the Libertarian Party ever got was in 1972.
Oh well, one lives and learns.
Actually you are right. I’ve corrected that.
I wonder what would happen if the law that was passed to prevent little-house-on-the-prairie scions from exercising their duties as electors were violated. Would the national-popular-vote nitwits gain the upper hand?
Geraldine must be spinning in her, oh, never mind.
Argh. I read about this just a couple of days ago, and I’ve completely forgotten. I hate it when that happens. The memorable part is the female LP candidate receiving a vote; the rest just gets lost in the general astonishment.
A tiny voice at the back of my head is saying Virginia. But I’m probably just guessing.
One electoral vote from a faithless elector from Virginia, I believe. I don’t know the backstory though.
Though apropo the original question, no one has mentioned Geraldine Ferraro, who got 13 electoral votes from Minnesota and the District of Columbia as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in 1984.
That faithless elector was Roger McBride, who then became the next LP nominee for president in the 1976 election, with another familiar name, David Bergland as VP.
Holy cow, I had forgotten that. I actually worked on the Hospers campaign in Texas, which is where I decided that the candidate and the principles were fine, it was just the party that was full of fruitcakes.
To answer Dale’s last question, yes, Theodora Nathan was the first woman to gain an electoral vote, as a result of faithless Republican elector Roger McBride of Virginia voting for the Libertarian ticket in 1972. The second woman to gain electoral votes was Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1984; she got 13 votes. Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, unless John McCain really screws up will be the third.