1980 United States Presidential Election

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After a tumultuous primary race and a first ballot victory at the DNC, Frank Church has emerged alive and still in control of the party. The challenge from Kennedy has thus made him have to redouble his efforts on large urban and rust belt states. Meanwhile, the Republicans have nominated a member from their conservative wing for the first time since 1948. Ronald Reagan, former Governor of California, is running on a platform of "bold colors, not pale pastels" in contrast to earlier Republican attempts merely to provide a more moderate alternative to Democrats. This includes a renewed effort to beat the Soviets in the Cold War instead of the current doctrine of detente and co-existence, and an economic platform involving tax cuts and lowering of the federal deficit. Anderson, enraged at the Republicans' turn to the right, has chosen to run as an independent. Among other third party choices are the Libertarians and the Citizens Party.

1980 Democratic Primaries

Green - President Frank F. Church III of Idaho
Red - Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts
Blue - Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr. of California

1980 Republican Primaries

Blue - Former Governor Ronald Reagan of California
Green - Congressman John B. Anderson of Illinois
Yellow - Senate Minority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr. of Tennessee
Red - Senator George H.W. Bush of Texas

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The 1980 United States Presidential Election
Coming out of the convention, the Church campaign, with a newly united party, suddenly took several independents and pushing him into an unassailable first place position that he held throughout the campaign. Despite tickets taking votes from his left flank, and the Anderson ticket taking independents and an amount of liberal Republicans, Church was nonetheless able to create a coalition of farmers, minorities, Mid-Westerners, and North-Easterners to win a land-slide re-election.

President Frank F. Church III (Democrat-Idaho)/Vice President Birch Bayh (Democrat-Indiana) 494 electoral votes, 50% of the popular vote
Former Governor Ronald W. Reagan (Republican-California)/Senate Minority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr. (Republican-Tennessee)   44 electoral votes, 27.8% of the popular vote
Congressman John Anderson (Independent-Illinois)/Former Ambassador Patrick Lucey (Independent-Wisconsin) 0 electoral votes, 11.1% of the popular vote
Mr. Edward Clark (Libertarian-California)/Mr. David H. Koch (Libertarian-Kansas) 0 electoral votes, 5.6% of the popular vote
Mr. Barry Commoner (Citizens-Missouri)/Mrs. La Donna Harris (Citizens-Oklahoma) 0 electoral votes, 5.6%