Also, the height of a state's tallest point is a perfectly great measure of the quality of that state. It can even predict presidential elections:
Obama - born in Hawaii - highest point 13,796 ft.
McCain - senator from Arizona - highest point 12,637 ft.
Bush - governor from Texas - highest point 8,751 ft.
Kerry - senator from Massachusetts - 3,489 ft.
Bush - governor from Texas - highest point 8,751 ft.
Gore - senator from Tennessee - highest point 6,643 ft.
Okay, so it doesn't work for the 1996 election. But the Kansas high point isn't even a mountain, it's just a flat piece of ground slightly closer to the Rockies over in Colorado than the rest of the state, so it shouldn't count. Also, for the 1992 election, we should use George H.W. Bush's birth state (CT) so he loses to Clinton with Arkansas. But for the 1988 election, he should get to use the state from which he was sent to Congress (Texas) so he beats Dukakis. And we can do this doublethink for Bush because he went to Yale, a school that teaches its students how to make voters comfortable when you are having a beer with them at a barbeque, unlike that rival school in Boston that teaches its students how to make good public policy while remaining utterly aloof and elitist.
Reagan - governor from California - highest point 14,505 ft.
Mondale - Minnesota - 2,301 ft.
Reagan - California - 14,505 ft.
Carter - Georgia - 4,784 ft.
Carter - Georgia - 4,784 ft.
Ford - Michigan - 1,979 ft.
Nixon - California - 14,505 ft.
McGovern - South Dakota - 7,242 ft.
Nixon - California - 14,505 ft.
Johnson - Texas - 8,751 ft.
I think the last 46 years is good enough, so there's no need to go back any further!
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