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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI forgot how much the 1980 election was a total disaster for the dems
Probably one of the biggest landslides in Presidential elections
tenderfoot
(8,443 posts)Not something to celebrate IMHO.
Turbineguy
(37,420 posts)All the years of CIA skullduggery lessons paid off for GHW Bush.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)Inflation high gas prices a brutal primary fight with Ted Kennedy and the nail in the coffin was the Iranian hostages I'm 56 years old and remember that election as a youngster.So no there was no tampering.The only tampering was the Iranian hostage crisis.Remember there was voter suppression back then
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)except, of course, for that little "arms-for-hostages" deal that the Reagan people worked out with the Ayatollah Khomeini to make sure the embassy hostages were not released until after the election.
http://www.wrmea.org/1987-october/did-iran-delay-hostages-release-to-ensure-reagan-s-election.html
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)made a secret agreement with the Iranians, so the Iranians waited till after the election to release the hostages.
matt819
(10,749 posts)It was also a crooked set up by the Republicans. Reagan and his fellow co-conspirators negotiated with Iran to withhold the freeing of the hostages until after the election.
This is a party based on crime, conspiracy, fear mongering, racism, and contempt for the American people, and more. What continues to be truly remarkable is that 50% of the country buy into the utter devastation that they have caused over the past 30-plus years.