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Reagan ran for reelection as president in 1984, running against Democrat Walter Mondale. Reagan was re-elected, receiving 58.8% of the popular vote to Mondale's 40.6%, and winning 49 of 50 states. [43] Reagan won a record 525 electoral votes (97.6 percent of the 538 votes in the Electoral College), the most by any candidate in American history ...
The percentage of Democrats who voted for Reagan ranged from 16 to 26% while Republicans voting for Mondale ranged from 3 to 7% according to exit polls by the Los Angeles Times, NBC, ABC/The Washington Post, and CBS News/The New York Times. [182] One-third of people who supported Hart during the Democratic primary voted for Reagan. [183]
This is the first time since 1892 that a party was voted out after a single four-year term, and the first for Democrats since 1896. This did not occur again for either party until 2020, and for the Democrats until 2024. Reagan won 53% of the vote in reliably Democratic South Boston, one example of the so-called Reagan Democrat. [83]
Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following his landslide victory over Democrat incumbent president Jimmy Carter and independent congressman John B. Anderson in the 1980 presidential election.
McGurn continued his remarks by comparing Carter’s achievements in office to Reagan’s. “You know, just a few years later, Reagan had won the Cold War without a shot. And Jimmy Carter ...
Jimmy Carter's first term began with a high approval rating reaching 66 percent, but it soon began to fall; his lowest approval rating was 28 percent. [56] This likely helped other Democrats like Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy (Former President John F. Kennedy 's brother), and Governor Jerry Brown seek the nomination against an incumbent ...
Republican Ronald Reagan won the election in a landslide, receiving 489 electoral votes, defeating incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter, who received 49. Reagan received the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate. Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent, received 6.6% of the vote.
In 1992, Arkansas’ five-term governor became the first Democratic presidential candidate in nearly three decades to carry California, the political birthplace of Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan.