Here are their last predictions before election day: Obama won every single pre-election poll, and each by a double-digit margin of victory.

Reagan did carry Rhode Island in his 49-state victory in 1984—only the third time since Eisenhower that a Republican won the state.

Despite George H. W. Bush aggressively contesting the state in 1988, Michael Dukakis won it by a fairly convincing 13 points, his best performance.

In 2004, Rhode Island gave John Kerry more than a 20% margin of victory (the third-highest of any state), with 59.4% of its vote.

Rhode Island was Obama's third-strongest state nationwide, only outperforming in Hawaii and Vermont.

Every single county in Rhode Island, along with Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Hawaii, voted for the former U.S.

Obama also won every town in Rhode Island with the exception of Scituate along with both congressional districts.

At the time of the 2008 presidential election, Rhode Island was one of two states (along with Nevada) in which prostitution was legal (provided it took place indoors).

Senator Jack Reed was soundly reelected over Republican Bob Tingle in a landslide three-to-one margin and won every town in the state including Scituate.

At the state level, Democrats picked up nine seats in the Rhode Island House of Representatives to augment their supermajority in that chamber.