History of the United States II / Unit 16 USH2 2251 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Election of 1980
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The idea
In nineteen eighty Ronald Reagan defeated Carter, carrying forty-three states and almost fifty-one percent of the popular vote to Carter's forty-one, Digital History records.
In practice
Reagan asking voters whether they were better off than four years before.
Where people slip
Only fifty-two percent of eligible voters went to the polls, the anchor says, the lowest turnout since nineteen forty-eight.
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