Ronald Reagan was mentioned as a presidential candidate in every election since 1968; many republican rivals thought him too old to be a force in 1980. One of the first things Reagan did, when entering the run for the president, was establish a political actions committee. The committee collected and contribu

Going into the last week of the election Reagan had a slight edge over Carter. “The President’s enemies now are the clock and the weakness of his magnetic field even for traditional democratic voters.” Even though the polls were somewhat close leading up to election day, Reagan ended up winning by a landslide. Reagan won fifty-one percent of the popular vote and had four-hundred eighty-nine electoral votes. “In the end even the South turned on its first President since the Civil War: every Deep South state but Carter’s native Georgia voted against him.”

The 1980 Presidential campaign would be Ronald Reagan coming up against Jimmy Carter. Throughout the campaign Reagan courted blue collar workers and made an attempt to win black support. The major issue that Reagan pushed throughout the campaign was President Carter’s economic policy. Inflation had risen to twelve percent and eight million people were currently unemployed. Carter would argue for his side that if you wanted a war and someone that would drop nuclear bombs you should vote for Reagan; if you wanted peace, you should vote for himself. Reagan was really pushing to get blue-collar whites votes. “With some justification, Reagan aides claimed they were gaining on the President in his native South. The reason: Reagan’s apparent strength among blue-collar whites.” Reagan was also trying to get women to come to his side by revealing, “One of the first appointments to the Supreme Court would be female.”

The Iran hostage situation was brought up over and over again. “As Nov. 4 draws even closer, the chance grows that the 1980 election will be swung by the decisions of an erratic government

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