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A map of the vote by province in 1984 shows the scale of the Progressive Conservatives' landslide victory. In a Canadian federal election, a landslide victory occurs when a political party gains a significant majority of the House of Commons of Canada. Landslide victories may also occur during provincial elections, and territorial elections in ...
Prop 36 passed with a landslide 68.9% of the vote, despite attempts by Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative Democrats to keep it off the ballot. California Gov. Gavin Newsom opposed Proposition 36.
By the beginning of the election campaign, the prolonged Iran hostage crisis had sharpened public perceptions of a national crisis. [14] On April 25, 1980, Carter's ability to use the hostage crisis to regain public acceptance eroded when his high risk attempt to rescue the hostages ended in disaster when eight servicemen were killed. The ...
Reagan won re-election in a landslide victory, carrying 525 electoral votes, 49 states, and 58.8% of the popular vote. Mondale won 13 electoral votes: 10 from his home state of Minnesota, which he won by a narrow margin of 0.18% (3,761 votes), and 3 from the District of Columbia, which has always voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic ...
The back-to-back storms have stretched some disaster relief agencies thin, prompting President Joe Biden to press Congress to “move as rapidly as they can” to pass more emergency aid ...
Congressional Republicans are vowing to launch multiple investigations into the Federal Emergency Management Agency after a fired supervisor claimed that she and other staffers were instructed to ...
Landslides have taken away mountain properties. ... an emergency session before Election Day to get their work done. ... have shifted to a response-and-recovery phase. More than 1,200 federal ...
The Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-288) was passed into law by the then President Richard Nixon as a United States federal law that established the process of presidential disaster declarations. [1] The bill was introduced by Senator Quentin Burdick on February 26, 1974. [2]