Ronald Reagan's Landslide Victory A Triumph of Conservatism

Economic models predicting presidential elections used to do very well using only various measures of real income growth over the course of a ... The 1984 Election Studies were, without doubt, the most comprehensive studies of a presidential election year ever conducted by any research organization. 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 ... 30 October 1984: Walter Mondale, the Democrat candidate, says he would rather 'lose a campaign about decency than win one about self-interest' punish Ulysses S. Grant at the ballot box. Six years earlier, Grant had issued his infamous Gen- eral Orders No. 11 expelling "Jews as a class". How a coast-to-coast victory was forged It was not exactly a total shutout. Walter Mondale did exhibit pockets of strength in the older, ... In 1984, Reagan defeated Walter Mondale (D) in the general election for the United States presidency. [hide]U.S. presidential election, 1984. Party, Candidate ... White voters with no college degree remain an important part of the GOP coalition, even as their numbers shrink. 1800: America's first two political parties are formed. Democratic Republicans rally behind Thomas Jefferson. The Federalists, supporting Alexander Hamilton's ... Donald Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote in the 2024 presidential election. In fact, Trump this year became only the ...