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...voters went to the polls in November of 1980 and swept Carter out of office, with only Minnesota voting for the incumbent president.Of the 56 percent who indicated they were not better off, 20 percent blame President Obama for their plight...
...he said, if President Obama is reelected, then 2014 could be a good year for Republicans since the party of an incumbent president has historically done poorly in the following election. State Rep. Keith Downey and 2010 gubernatorial candidate...
...percent.It's unlikely that the Republican nominee will be able wrestle this state away from the Democratic incumbent president, but it will be interesting to watch the final votes tallied on election eve.-Keith Hansen
...direction, usually is a good psychological and political indicator of the electorate.Since World War II, no incumbent president has been elected with a jobless rate higher than 7.2 percent. That was the number when Ronald Reagan won a landslide...
...Chris Christie in the race, there is still a good shot at beating President Obama - the best shot at upsetting an incumbent president, I would argue, since 1992.Tony Fratto, a former White House staffer to George W. Bush, told me there's...
...with Obama on spending and health care. "We're going to have to show contrast, not similarities" with the incumbent president, Pawlenty said.He sought repeatedly to tie Romney and Obama together by poking at both."Where's Barack...
...modernization of the Soviet Union: resulting famines claim 25 million. 1928. 76. Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt beats incumbent President Herbert Hoover. 1932. 77. Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet premier: begins era of ''Glasnost.'' 1985...
...American Campaign," Campbell reviewed the 33 elections since 1868, and said 11 were landslides, all but two for incumbent presidents. The last was Ronald Reagan's, in 1984. Since then, the margins have been Clinton by 8 percentage points...
...veterans--the generation that occupied the Oval Office from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Jimmy Carter, the incumbent president when the book was published in the autumn of 1980. I predicted that in the years just ahead they would be replaced...