For the results of the subsequent election, see United States presidential election of 1988. This is the last election where the Republican candidate achieved any of the following: Win every state in the Northeastern and Pacific regions of the United States; win at least one county in every state; and win any of the following states: Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington.[74]. Detailed national-level Presidential Election Results for 1984. Later he would endorse the Democratic nominee, Walter Mondale. Mondale made history by choosing as his running mate Geraldine Ferraro—the first woman selected by a major political party for its presidential ticket. The popular vote from the Republican primaries was as follows:[8]. In a "much criticized parade of possible Veep candidates" to his home in Minnesota, Mondale considered San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins, also female; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African American; and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Hispanic, as other finalists for the nomination.
This pledge to raise taxes backfired, giving Reagan and the Republicans ammunition in their desire to paint the Democratic ticket as “tax-and-spend liberals.” A brief upward blip in Mondale’s fortunes came when, in the first of two nationally televised debates, Reagan appeared tired and confused. The initial Liberal lead began to slip as Turner made several prominent gaffes. At the time, no one believed he would win either nomination or election, but his public stature guaranteed him equal opportunity to compete seriously for the nomination. Turner had been out of politics for 9 years. Note: These are only those endorsements which occurred during or before the primary race. 1462 likes. The survey was not conducted in the states of Washington, Alaska, or Hawaii. Such people can register their names in the voters list between 1 September and 31st October. He notably referred to Mondale as a "lapdog", and to former astronaut Glenn as "Sky King" who was "confused in his capsule."[12]. He won’t tell you. PRIVACY parade of personalities", but praised Mondale for his choice, having himself pledged to name a woman to the ticket in the event he was nominated. For all intents and purposes, this was the end of Social Credit as a viable national party. Anderson initially was against running, hoping that another notable politico would take the party into the 1984 election, and feared that his own candidacy might result in the party being labeled a "personality cult".
© 2020 Roper Center, Cornell University. Indeed, at that second debate, on October 28, Reagan was asked about being the oldest president in U.S. history and whether there was any doubt he could do the job. Mondale ran a liberal campaign, supporting a nuclear freeze and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). While the Liberal caucus still outnumbered the combined Tory and New Democratic caucuses, a series of pending by-elections could potentially have reduced Turner's government to a minority and left it in serious danger of being toppled by a motion of no confidence. Turner's inability to overcome the alleged resentment against Trudeau, combined with his own mistakes, resulted in a debacle for the Liberals. 2 Results of the Parti nationaliste du Québec are compared to those of the Union Populaire in the 1980 election. In accordance with Canadian constitutional practice, Sauvé granted the request and set the election for September 4. For the only time in American history, the vice presidential roll call was taken concurrently with the presidential roll call. These allegations included Zaccaro's possible past involvement in organized crime, pornography distribution, and campaign contribution violations. At the time, Ferraro was a three-term congresswoman from New York, and it was hoped that her nomination would galvanize the campaign. Reagan benefited in the election of 1984 from a high degree of personal popularity, from the reduction in inflation, and from the beginnings of economic recovery. Psephologists attributed the Republican victory to "Reagan Democrats", millions of Democrats who voted for Reagan, as in 1980. Particularly shocking was the decimation of the Liberals in Quebec. The Social Credit party, who for a long time had been the country's fourth-largest (and occasionally even third-largest) party, suffered a massive drop-off in support from the previous election, in which they had already lost a major share of the vote and all their remaining MPs. Through the primaries, Jackson helped confirm the black electorate's importance to the Democratic Party in the South at the time. So did most of the others, but Hart came in second in the Iowa caucuses and won the New Hampshire primary. I just did. Early in the election, Mulroney focused on adding Quebec nationalists to the traditional Tory coalition of western populist conservatives and fiscal conservatives from Ontario and the Atlantic provinces. It did initially, but the Democratic ticket was derailed almost immediately by a monthlong controversy over the finances of Ferraro and her husband, a New York real estate operator. Claiming that he'd gone so far as to apologize for making light of "these horrible appointments," Mulroney demanded that Turner apologize to the country for not cancelling the appointments advised by Trudeau and for recommending his own appointments. The election was fought almost entirely on the record of the Liberals, who had been in power for all but 1 year out of 21, since 1963. Mondale gradually pulled away from Hart in the delegate count, but, as Time reported in late May, "Mondale ... has a wide lead in total delegates (1,564 to 941) ... because of his victories in the big industrial states, his support from the Democratic Establishment and the arcane provisions of delegate-selection rules that his vanguard helped draft two years ago. Hoping for success in Quebec, leader Joe Clark began actively courting soft nationalist voters in the province, and was one of the main reasons businessman Brian Mulroney, a fluently bilingual native of Quebec, was chosen as Clark's replacement.
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[74] Finally, despite his narrow loss in Minnesota, Reagan still won in five out of its eight congressional districts (by contrast, Nixon had only carried one Massachusetts district twelve years earlier) thus making Reagan the only U.S. presidential candidate in history to win the popular vote in a majority of congressional districts in every state. In particular, he spoke of creating new "make work programs", a concept from earlier decades that had been replaced by the less patronizing-sounding "job creation programs". That was really the end of my campaign that night, I think. However, no candidate came forward resulting in Anderson becoming the nominee in waiting. The remaining candidates were Bergland; Ravenal, who had worked in the Department of Defense under Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford; and Ruwart. Hart never fully recovered from Mondale's charge that his "New Ideas" were shallow and lacking in specifics. However, Kennedy announced in December 1982 that he did not intend to run. Roman drew support from Progressive Conservatives who were upset by Gamble's extreme right-wing views.