Reagan's Electoral Triumph Uncovering the States that Fueled His Landslide Victory

Ronald Reagan's landslide election as President and the Republican Party's takeover of the Senate gives a substantial push to the rightward trend. New Jersey has voted in blue in the past eight presidential elections. A look at the state's voting history and when it flipped from red to ... President Ronald Reagan made it clear that his objectives were to cut taxes, fight communism, reinforce national defense, and slow the growth of government. Clallam County in Washington is the country's last presidential bellwether: a county that has correctly predicted the US presidential election winner since ... In the 1980 presidential election, Republican former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first woman to run for the U.S. House of Representatives, even though she was not eligible to vote. She ran as an Independent ... Jimmy Carter took his first step on the road to the White House in 1972 by becoming chair of the Democratic Governor's Campaign Committee. President Ronald Reagan's 1984 Reelection Campaign. On January 29, 1984 President Reagan announced the Reagan-Bush Candidacies for Reelection. The electoral map of the 1984 election showing Republican Ronald Reagan winning 49 out of the 50 states · Wikimedia Commons. Next week we're celebrating 40-years since President Reagan's historic landslide. In 1984, President Reagan won more electoral votes than ...