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Ronald Reagan is re-elected as president of the United States after alleged insensitivity toward Black issues during his first term and only receiving 20 percent of the Black American vote.
1984 (Nov 6)
Ronald Reagan was re-elected president of the United States by the biggest margin in recent history. Reagan captured at least 58 percent of the more than fifty million votes cast, while his Democratic challenger, former vice president Walter Mondale, received approximately 41 percent. Reagan's landslide victory was comparable to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt's over Alf Landon in 1936; Lyndon B. Johnson's defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964; and Richard Nixon's defeat of George McGovern in 1972. Regan, who was frequently attacked by civil rights leaders during his first term for alleged insensitivity toward Black issues, received only 20 percent of the Black American vote by most estimates, including media exit polls.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.