Reagan's Landslide A Call for a New American Century

The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan. Republican Ronald Reagan won 525 electoral votes in his 1984 defeat of Democrat Walter F. Mondale, but. Reagan's 97.6 percent of the 538 electoral vote total ... Rakeda Leaks (right) and Candice Williams fill out Electoral College maps on election night. Stacy Threatt. It's that time again: time for ... Ronald Wilson Reagan won a second term as President yesterday in an election that Republican leaders hailed as a sweeping personal triumph and a mandate for ... In 1984, Ronald Wilson Reagan not only won reelection but prevailed in the second-biggest landslide in American history, winning 525 electoral votes. 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 ... Economic models predicting presidential elections used to do very well using only various measures of real income growth over the course of a ... Every four years in the United States, the electoral college system is used to determine the winner of the presidential election. A sizable 11 percentage-point gender gap was evident in the 2016 presidential election, with 42 percent of women and 53 percent of men voting for Trump. The ... 1800: America's first two political parties are formed. Democratic Republicans rally behind Thomas Jefferson. The Federalists, supporting Alexander Hamilton's ...