By the beginning of 1920 skyrocketing inflation and Wilson's focus upon his proposed League of Nations at the expense of domestic policy had helped make the incumbent President Woodrow Wilson very unpopular[1] – besides which Wilson also had major health problems that had left First Lady Edith effectively running the nation. Political unrest seen in the Palmer Raids and the "Red Scare" further added to the unpopularity of the Democratic Party, since this global political turmoil produced considerable fear of alien revolutionaries invading the country.[2] Demand in the West for exclusion of Asian immigrants became even stronger than it had been before,[3] and the factionalism that would almost destroy the Democratic Party later in the decade had already simmered.[4]
Resultant opposition to the Democrats allowed Warren Harding to win the election in Arizona with 55.61% of the vote to James Cox' 44.39%. Harding won all but two counties; Graham and Greenlee in the state by a landslide.[5]
^Goldberg, David Joseph; Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s, p. 44 ISBN0801860059
^Leuchtenburg, William E.; The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932, p. 75 ISBN0226473724
^Vought, Hans P. ; The Bully Pulpit and the Melting Pot: American Presidents And The Immigrant, 1897–1933, p. 167 ISBN0865548870
^'Arizona and the West', Journal of the Southwest 14(1972), p. 89
^Menendez Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, p. 121 ISBN0786422173
