Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...presidential level, though, Reagan's sweep was emphatic enough at least to raise the question: Might this be the realigning election that could make the Republican candidate, whoever he or she may be, the favorite in future contests for the White House? There is not much hard evidence. The percentage of voters identifying themselves in exit polls as Republicans did rise about five points from 1980, but still was only about 35%. There were some indications, however, that realignment is at least a possibility, given a suc cessful Reagan second term. The election destroyed the long-held assumption that...
...that had resounded constantly through the final week of the campaign, foreshadowing the sweep to come. For his closing swing, beginning in Boston last Thursday, Reagan gathered into his entourage most of his closest aides, including some who have been campaigning with him, in California and nationally, for 20 years. Their exultation was mixed with a note of melancholy: this was the last hurrah...
...will be a key political question in the months ahead. But in any case, says Campaign Manager John Sasso, some early estimates of Ferraro's ballot-box appeal were simply unrealistic. "Expectations were very high, maybe too high," he says. "Some people expected she would singlehandedly sweep up all the ethnics, all the women. My god, that's three-quarters of the country...
...season was only a few minutes old when Santiago made his first big play of the year, the now-infamous Floyd's touchdown. In what he considers the highlight of his season. Santiago scampered 73 yards into the endzone on a sweep, dropped the bail, turned to face the television cameras, raised his arms to signal a touchdown, and then formed an "F"--for Floyd's--with his body...