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If Clay would have won this state in 1844 he'd have been president instead of Polk?
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New York, worth 36 electoral votes. If Clay had won New York the electoral vote would have been 134 for Polk to 141 for Clay instead of 170 to 105. Clay lost New York with 232,482 votes to Polk's 237,588 votes, a difference of 5,106 votes, a little more than 1% of the vote cast in New York.
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Why was Henry Clay nominated by the whig party to run for president in 1844?
ignored Texas
