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14 October, 09:56

Which of the following were results of the 1980 election? Check all that apply. Reagan won by a landslide. Reagan won the popular vote but lost the electoral college. Republicans gained control of the senate. Reagan did not win any states in the west. Conservatives called this the "Reagan Revolution."

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  1. 14 October, 10:11
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    In terms of electoral votes, Reagan did win by a landslide as he won 489 electoral votes to Jimmy Carter's 49. In terms of popular vote he won by a more normal margin as he had 50.7% of popular votes as opposed to Carter's 41 %. Republican did win control of the Senate as they won 12 more seats, getting a 53 seats majority to Democrat's 46 seats (Democrats lost 12 seats of the 58 they had before the elections). Reagan won 44 states, including all the western states and Carter only won 6 states plus the District of Columbia (Washington DC). Finally, the term "Reagan Revolution" was a term coined not by Conservatives but by news pundits (although some argue that the term was suggested to these pundits by Reagan's advisors).

    Therefore the answers that most apply are A, C and D.
  2. 14 October, 10:13
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    Reagan won by a landslide. Republicans gained control of the senate. Reagan did not win any states in the west.

    Explanation:

    In the United States presidential election of 1980 the American people elected as president the Republican Ronald Reagan before the Democrat Jimmy Carter, at that time head of state.

    The elections were marked by the slow recovery of the economic crisis of the mid-70s, whose main effects were a significant rise in inflation and unemployment. At the international level the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the fiasco of the Marielitos and the crisis of the Iranian hostages also hit Carter hard, especially after the failure of the Eagle Claw Mission to rescue the kidnapped Americans in Tehran. All this benefited Reagan, whose optimism managed to defeat Carter.
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