The Reagan Mandate Exploring the States that Gave Him a Clear Mandate

... 1980 US presidential election. Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, the incumbent president, took on Republican governor Ronald Reagan in the ... ... 1980 06.23 EST. Share. Ronald Reagan will be the next President of the United States. He was heading for the White House early today in what ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to ... Nevada and Washoe County had leaned Republican in presidential races from 1980 to 2004. Since Obama in 2008, they've voted Democratic. Virginia cast its 12 electoral votes for Richard Nixon. Election of 1972. A combination of party reforms and unforeseen events led to the Democratic nomination ... 1796 John Adams (Federalist) 7, John Henry (Federalist) 2, Thomas Jefferson (Democrat-Republican) 4, Thomas Pinckney (Federalist) 4, Aaron Burr (Democrat- ... Before becoming a politician, he was an actor and served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild. Biography. Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, and ... Minnesota was, at the time, a very blue state and was also the home state of Walter Mondale. By a narrow margin of less than 4,000 votes, it ... IN THE broadest terms, the 1980 presidential election in Illinois was simply a landslide for Ronald Reagan, who garnered a whopping 376,681 more votes than ... Consequently, President Carter and the Democrats went before the electorate in 1980 with the worst of all possible situations--high inflation, increased ...