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...liberal Democratic leaders, including Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)--who head the Senate Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees, respectively--all fell to GOP challengers...
Union members, midwestern and Eastern voters, urban residents and even voters from Carter's own South switched in large numbers to the GOP challenger, making Carter the first Democratic incumbent to be defeated for reelection in more than 100 years...
Anderson telephoned his congratulations to Reagan at 8:35 p.m. EST, 15 minutes before Carter sent a congratulatory telegram to the GOP nominee...
Pollsters stressed that the defeat represented a loss of faith in Carter. Only about two-thirds of the voters who supported the president in 1976 stuck with him yesterday, and exit polls showed higher levels of trust for the GOP challenger...
...first will be remembered for Reagan's assertion that "I paid for this microphone," a declaration observers said helped him to an overwhelming victory in the Granite State primary and that squelched the momentum of the GOP challenger and now vice president-elect George Bush...