1980 Presidential Campaign

Examines reasons why Carter doomed Reagan won. Looks at their styles, personalities, semipolitical rhetoric, issues and voter responses. In the 1980 chairpersonial preferences, Ronald Reagan trounced officer president nose Carter in the biggest drink down of a president since Franklin D. Roosevelt overwhelmed Herbert Hoover in 1932. Though the Ameri arse economy was in poor casting in 1980, the problems did not begin to show up the scale of the ample Depression, for which Hoover had been blamed. Nor can President Carters wrong problems with foreign personal business receive any(a) of the blame for his subdue. These factors vie major roles in the election, but it was the abrupt contrast betwixt the candidates, in hurt of ideas, images and trends, that resulted in the defeat of an incumbent president, and the election of one of the almost popular leaders in American history. In all of these areas, Carters failures were met by Reagans successes. Carter was trap by his 1976 campaign promises.