In the 1980 election between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, the Gallup poll showed Carter winning 47-39 just two weeks before the election that produced a landslide victory for Reagan.
In March 1980, President Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan by 25 percent in some polls.
Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton also sought to stop rising deficits by increasing taxes.
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And in an April 11-14, 1980, poll, incumbent President Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan by 42% to 34%.
In November 1980, after his landslide victory over incumbent President Carter, Ronald Reagan's favorable rating was 67 percent.
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For a while, it appeared that the 2012 presidential election would parallel the 1980 election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
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Moreover, only about 46.5 million people watched, according to Nielsen Media Research, fewer than the 60 million some had projected and far fewer than the record 80 million who watched then-President Carter debate Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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In August of that year, Carter was tied with Ronald Reagan, but lost the election by 10 points.
President Jimmy Carter and then President Ronald Reagan appointed him ambassador and head of the U.S. delegation to the human-rights body that oversaw compliance with the Helsinki Accords.
Of course, Carter was an easy mark for Ronald Reagan, the greatest GOP campaigner ever.
The professor is still hot about Ronald Reagan removing Jimmy Carter's solar panels on the White House roof.
Not since Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter in 1980 has an election triggered such consternation from commentators anxious about peace.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan torpedoed Jimmy Carter with his famous line, "There you go again" and turned a close contest into a 10-point blowout.
"Pollsters first noticed the gender gap in the 1980 election between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, and it has been a constant in American politics since then, " CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
"There isn't any connection between connecting with an average voter and being an average voter, " said Julian Zelizer, a CNN contributor and history and public affairs professor at Princeton University who has written books on former Presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.
In 1980, McCarthy endorsed Ronald Reagan over President Jimmy Carter.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan zeroed in on Jimmy Carter's competence.
All this could have been overcome if Mitt Romney had waged an aggressive campaign of positive substance the way Ronald Reagan did when he challenged Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Jimmy Carter won them back to the Democratic fold, but Ronald Reagan prised them away.
Though he electrified the party convention, Mr Carter trounced him in the primaries before being crushed by Ronald Reagan.
Mr. Gingrich asserted in the debate that at this time in 1979, Ronald Reagan was 30 percentage points behind Jimmy Carter, an incumbent he would trounce 10 months later.
Ronald Reagan later acceded to their wishes and reversed Carter's decision.
Some still think the damage done then proved fatal to Mr Carter in the general election in November, which was won by Ronald Reagan.
Kuhn says Ronald Reagan in 1980 prepared for just such attacks from Jimmy Carter's team.
John McCain, for example, people like me wondered whether this would turn out to be a year like 1976 or 1980, when the challengers to the front-runners -- Ronald Reagan to Gerald Ford, then Ted Kennedy to Jimmy Carter -- pressed their case all the way to the convention.
Carter felt an electoral brushback in 1978, two years before his defeat by Ronald Reagan.
Mr. Carter was trounced in his 1980 re-election bid by free-marketer Ronald Reagan, who slashed marginal income-tax rates and regulations and lowered trade barriers.
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