Reagan's Resounding Mandate Exploring the States that Embraced His Leadership

The CBS News poll was launched back in 1976, so President Carter was the first president that CBS polling covered for his full term in ... President Ronald Reagan's 1984 Reelection Campaign. On January 29, 1984 President Reagan announced the Reagan-Bush Candidacies for Reelection. The 1980 Presidential Election pitted incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter against Republican Governor Ronald Reagan and independent candidate John ... A common view is that a president's popular mandate, as measured by the size of his margins of victory in the popular and electoral vote, predicts the ... 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 ... The Georgia peanut farmer turned politician won Texas' 26 electoral votes in 1976 but couldn't repeat the feat four years later against ... The last time a Democrat won Idaho's vote for president was 60 years ago, in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson prevailed in a landslide nationally ... 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 ... Every four years in the United States, the electoral college system is used to determine the winner of the presidential election. 35 years ago today on Nov. 4, 1980, I cast my first vote for Ronald Reagan to become the 40th President of the United States.