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...numbers in the end did not hold up quite that well, but almost. Reagan failed by an eyelash to get the 50-state sweep he had aimed for, but he carried 49 states, only the second time that has been done (Richard Nixon was first...
What 1984 bequeaths to 1988 is far more than the timeworn questions debated since 1960, when Richard Nixon described the central problem as How We Keep the Peace Without Surrender and John Kennedy proclaimed, "We must move again." What this campaign promises is the rearrangement of much of the old familiar political scenery and the way we see each other...
Much will depend on how Ronald Reagan interprets the vote. Landslides give Presidents enormous authority, but they can lead either to disasters, as did the landslides of Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, or to profound redefinitions of American life, as Franklin Roosevelt engineered. Of course, squeakers too can change American life, as Lincoln and Kennedy proved. What is critical in both landslides and squeakers is the ability of a President to read the tides, the yearnings that went into his victory, to distinguish between his own campaign rhetoric and the reality he must force his people to face...
...presidential candidate's ability to influence the assorted imponderables of personality and local issues in House districts has always been more theoretical than real. When Dwight Eisenhower overwhelmed Adlai Stevenson by more than 9 million votes in 1956, Republicans actually lost two seats in the House. Richard Nixon's 1972 landslide of 49 states and 60.7% of the votes produced a G.O.P. gain of just twelve House seats, and most of those resulted from redistricting...
...also been considered a shoo-in; yet TV network-news polls reported early Tuesday evening that Republican Businessman John R. Raese was winning. Rockefeller ended up winning by a margin of 4%. "I saw the Reagan coattails coming," declared Rockefeller, who lost his first gubernatorial election in the 1972 Nixon landslide...