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Poll source Date(s) administered Ronald Reagan (R) Jimmy Carter (D) John Anderson (I) Other Undecided Margin Gallup [1]: March 31 – April 3, 1978 46%
Reagan, the former Governor of California and GE spokesman, passed Carter in the polls after the primaries, winning over voters dissatisfied with Carter's handling of the economy, the energy crisis, and the Iran hostage crisis. As the race neared its finish, Carter had apparently closed the gap with Reagan; some outlets gave him the lead.
One analysis of the election has suggested that "Both Carter and Reagan were perceived negatively by a majority of the electorate." [80] While the three leading candidates (Reagan, Anderson and Carter) were religious Christians, Carter had the most support of evangelical Christians according to a Gallup poll. [78]
Reagan and Carter met in one head-to-head debate, convened in Cleveland a week before the election. Such timing would be unthinkable today; after all, Trump and Harris convened their only face-to ...
The CBS News poll was launched back in 1976, so President Carter was the first president that CBS polling covered for his full term in office. ... Ronald Reagan. Public approval of Carter declined ...
Carter and Reagan were almost neck-and-neck in the polls. For all his flaws, the president had two major advantages: he was an incumbent and he was a moderate who could legitimately claim the ...
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 vote and independent candidate John B. Anderson took 6.6 percent of the vote. Republicans picked up twelve Senate seats to take control of a chamber of Congress for the first time since the 1954 ...
The question is regarded as a decisive moment of the 1980 US presidential election, seeing Mr Reagan triumph over incumbent president Jimmy Carter, and Labour has sought to emulate that strategy ...