Ronald Reagan's Landslide Victory An Electoral Map Analysis

Electoral Vote, Popular Vote. Presidential, Vice Presidential. Republican, election party winner, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, 489, 90.9%, 43,904,153, 50.7%. The 1980 Presidential Election was a clear decision by American voters that the economic problems and foreign policy woes of the nation required new ... Mandates are the product of landslide victories, a margin of 10 percentage points or more in presidential politics. President Ronald Reagan's 1984 Reelection Campaign. On January 29, 1984 President Reagan announced the Reagan-Bush Candidacies for Reelection. In 1980, the former governor of California, and famous actor, Ronald Reagan, faced the incumbent Jimmy Carter. The election featured incumbent President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, against Reagan, who famously asked the electorate, "Are you better off than you were four ... In the 1980 presidential election, Republican former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide. President Ronald Reagan [R] Main Opponent Jimmy Carter [D] Electoral Vote Winner: 489 Main Opponent: 49 Total/Majority: 538/270 Vice ... Conservatism reaches a high point with the election in 1980 of President Ronald Reagan and. Vice-President George Bush. NEXT. Page 4. The ... Daniel Williams, “The GOP's Abortion Strategy: Why Pro-Choice Republicans Became Pro-Life in the 1970s,” Journal of Policy History (2011).