United States presidential election, 1984

The 50th election of the President of the United States of America was held on 6 November 1984. Re-elected was Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States remained so.

Candidates

The Republican Party nominated unanimously incumbent Ronald Reagan as a presidential candidate George HW Bush and again as a candidate for the office of Vice-President.

The Democratic Party nominated the former Vice President Walter Mondale, who had been but seriously afflicted in the primary campaign of Senator Gary Hart, long time. Reported only when journalists about ambiguities in Hart's biography and Mondale with ( a commercial borrowed ) question "Where is the beef? " ( German: " Where's the beef " ) pointing to the alleged lack of substance of Harts program to Mondale was able to prevail. As a Democratic candidate for the office of Vice President of the New York delegates Geraldine Ferraro was nominated. She was the first politician of a major party, the candidate for the office of Vice-President. Also notable was that the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson became the first African-American, multiple primaries to decide for themselves. The other Democratic candidates, including former astronaut and Senator John Glenn nunmehrige, gave up early.

Electioneering

One of the main issues in the election campaign were the growing debt of the United States, inflation, the need for new taxes, and the high spending on defense. Even the great age of Reagan on the one hand, the supposed political inexperience were Mondale campaign issue other. Mondale's announcement of wanting to raise taxes, is widely seen as crucial for its very significant defeat.

Result

The election took place on 6 November 1984.

269 ​​votes were needed for election as President.

Mondale Reagan was only in Minnesota and the District of Columbia beat and so won only 13 electoral votes. Ronald Reagan was able to significantly expand with its 525 electoral votes to lead that he had in the 1980 presidential election. Since Alf Landon's defeat in the presidential election in 1936 had received no candidate of a major party so few electoral votes for themselves, for the Democrats, it was the greatest defeat in the reference on the electoral college, since the presidential election in 1872. Those days was the Democratic candidate Horace Greeley between the election and the days of the electoral college died.