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From January 21 to June 3, 1980, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1980 United States presidential election.Incumbent President Jimmy Carter was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses, culminating in the 1980 Democratic National Convention, held from August 11 to 14, 1980, in New York City.
The 1980 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary was held on February 26, 1980, in New Hampshire as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1980 United States presidential election.
The 1980 Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary was held on March 4, 1980. As part of the 1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 1980 United States presidential election , this was the fourth primary since Iowa, Maine and New Hampshire . 112 pledged delegates to the 1980 Democratic National Convention were allocated to ...
The 1976 primaries matched the record previously set in 1972 for the highest number of candidates in any presidential primaries in American history, with 16. During the primaries, Jimmy Carter capitalized on his status as an outsider. The 1976 campaign was the first in which primaries and caucuses carried more weight than the old boss-dominated ...
Reagan defeated George H. W. Bush and other candidates in the 1980 Republican presidential primaries, while Carter fended off a challenge from Senator Ted Kennedy in the 1980 Democratic primaries. In the general election, Reagan won 489 of 538 electoral votes and 50.7 percent of the popular vote, while Carter won 41.0 percent of the popular ...
Then-Sen. Ted Kennedy fought Carter for the 1980 Democratic nomination all the way to the Democratic convention. Kennedy’s effort pulled Carter’s policy positions to the left and perhaps also ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4, 1980. Republican nominee, former California governor Ronald Reagan, defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory.
On Saturday, Feb. 1, the Democratic Nation Committee chose a new party chairperson, Minnesota’s Ken Martin.Martin, the longtime head of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, promised to ...