 Despite the fact that the state has voted for the eventual winner of the election in a presidential election since 1912, with the exception of the 1956 election, Bush carried this state with a larger margin of victory than his nationwide results, indicating that the state is more conservative than the rest of the country and that it's trending Republican.These factors eventually led the state to lose its bellwether status in the next election.There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election.