Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide despite trailing Jimmy Carter in public opinion polls two weeks earlier, so polls cannot be trusted to predict election results.

Another Reagan landslide By . Post Editorial Board. Published July 3, 2014, 4:13 a.m. ET. ... Reagan polls at double the second-place winner, Bill Clinton, and more than four times JFK.

Republican Ronald Wilson Reagan was elected the 40th president of the United States yesterday after riding to a landslide victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter.

But Reagan was reelected by a landslide two years later. After a battle to rein in the “Reagan Revolution,” the Democratic Party made House gains in the midterms.

President Reagan`s landslide re-election shifted national politics to the long-term advantage of Republicans, and the agenda set by his administration will define political debate in 1988 and beyon… ...

NOW is a good time to look back at the land slide win that sent Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980, because lots of analysts think 2004 could turn out the same way – close for a long ti… ...

Reagan, he says, had managed to capture “the zeitgeist”. “We saw a harbinger of it in 1980, when he was running against Carter, who was a better president than he gets credit for,” he says.

A check on such speculation is the notable absence of a rout in U.S. presidential elections since 1984, when Ronald Reagan defeated Walter Mondale in a 49-state landslide.Reagan won the popular ...

President Reagan used to say that government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem. Perhaps this basic insight was the reason he won two landslide presidential elections ...

Landslide and host Ben Bradford offer a gripping, ... Each week the podcast follows Ford vs. Reagan in 1976 and its effect on the GOP, continuing through the general election race, ...