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Wednesday, November 5, 1980
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eagan ousts Carterin surprise landslide
United Press International
Republican Ronald Reagan ousted Jimmy Carter from the pres-
fency Tuesday with an electoral vote landslide that also im-
jriled a quarter century of Democratic rule in the Senate and
ye the GOP new strength in state capitals.
Reagan’s stunning victory — more than 10 to 1 in electoral
votes, but only a slim majority of the total popular vote — made
rter the first elected president to lose a second term bid since
Serbert Hoover went down in the midst of the Great Depression.
I Reagan, who will be 70 just two weeks after the inauguration,
i|l be the oldest president ever sworn in for a first term when he
|tes the oath Jan. 20.
| He will bring to Washington at least nine new Republican
paters, leaving the Democrats, in control since 1954, with no
ore than a one-vote margin even if they won all the contests still
idoubt.
j Jbe Democrats retained control of the House, but their domi-
B nee of governorships was cut back by at least two and possibly
ur seats.
| Veteran Democratic senators who went down included the
nate s senior member, President Pro Tempore Warren Magnu-
|on of Washington, 1972 presidential candidate George
pcGovem of South Dakota, Frank Church of Idaho, Birch Bayh
of Indiana, John Culver of Iowa, John Durkin of New Hampshire
and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.
Reagan, a converted Democrat who served two terms as gov
ernor of California after a long career in the movies, turned what
pollsters said would be a toss-up election into a walk-away by
carrying at least 42 states. Carter had only five and the District of
Columbia, with three states still up for grabs.
In Los Angeles, Reagan told ecstatic supporters: “I give you my
sacred oath I will do my utmost to justify the trust you have placed
in me.”
He promised to restore prosperity at home and prestige abroad
by taking an ax to federal taxes and regulations and by building the
nation’s military strength — and he promised Americans to "get
the government off your back.”
His campaign was an unswerving, slashing attack on Carter’s
first term, with emphasis on the bread and butter issues of soaring
inflation and unemployment, and warnings the Democratic presi
dent had left the United States second best to the Soviet Union.
Reagan cut deeply into traditional Democratic working class
support, although it appeared Carter kept the black and Hispanic
vote.
Independent John Anderson got more than 10 percent of the
vote in a few states, but it did not appear he had pulled enough
liberals away from Carter to ensure Reagan’s election.
The Republican victor won by destroying the industrial East
and Old South power base Carter forged to return the Democrats
to the White House four years ago.
With what were slim popular vote victories in some cases,
Reagan produced an electoral vote landslide of staggering propor
tions.
He beat Carter in the populous belt of industrial states stretch
ing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, sealing
victory before voting had even ended in the Sunbelt and Western
states that gave him his biggest margins. Carter’s home state of
Georgia was his only victory in the Deep South.
The 4:40 am EST Wednesday national vote for president with
91 percent (162,600 of 178,591) of the precincts reported:
Popular Vote Pet Electoral
Reagan: 39,255,541 51 469
Carter: 31,959,519 41 45
Anderson: 5,021,444 7 00
Reagan had won 42 states with 469 electoral votes.
Carter had won five states and the District of Columbia with 45
electoral votes.
Reagan had seamless Republican unity that welded its most
stalwart conservatives to some of its most liberal mavericks—plus
the fervent backing of a new political force, fundamentalist Christ
ians and anti-abortion groups.
Carter quit early. He conceded before 10 p.m. EST saying,
“The people of the United States have made their choice and of
course I accept their decision.”
The election was a nearly unmitigated disaster for Democrats
across the country.
The GOP gains made the 1980 election their best showing since
Dwight Eisenhower ended two decades of Democratic domi
nance of Washington by winning the presidency and carrying in a
GOP Congress in 1952. That was the last time Republicans con
trolled either house of Congress.
Reagan’s victory smashed precedents like dime store crockery.
Not only will he be the oldest man ever to take office for a first
term in the White House, but he also is the first divorcee, the first
actor and the only person in the two-party era of American politics
to switch political allegiance and go on to win the presidency.
Carter, the political outsider who took the Democrats by sur
prise in 1976 and then went on to a narrow victory over Ford, had
a trouble-plagued four years in the White House.
Although he enjoyed some notable victories in foreign policy—
a Nobel Prize nomination for brokering peace between Egypt and
Israel and negotiation of a far-reaching but still unratified nuclear
arms limitation treaty with the Soviet Union — Carter had little
but grief in trying to cope with domestic affairs.
OP edges toward Senate control
/i
, United Press International
I WASHINGTON — A tide of conservatism swept the
Senate toward Republican control today for the first time
26 years.
The House remained solidly in Democratic hands de-
ilte the loss of two dozen or more seats, including such
names as party whip John Brademas of Indiana, Ways
and Means chairman Al Ullman of Oregon and Public
Works chairman Harold Johnson of California.
Ilf the Senate goes Republican as expected, the new
97th Congress will mark the first since 1916 in which the
flouse and Senate are controlled by different parties. It
1 leave the House a Democratic island in a Republican
Tt appeared the Democrats would hold onto 245-250
douse seats, well above the 218 needed for control.
However, the best the Democrats could hope for in the
nate appeared to be a 50-50 tie.
A change of party alignment in the Senate results in a
issive shakeup of the power structure. Republicans
ould not only control the flow and scheduling of legisla-
on, but would replace Democrats as chairmen of all
jSenate committees.
f The Republican Party has not controlled Congress
since the 1953-54 session — when Dwight Eisenhower
> was president. The Senate currently is under Democratic
control 59-41, and the House 273-159 with three vacan-
fts.
Congress clearly took a giant leap toward conservatism
in Tuesday’s elections.
Several leading Senate liberals felt the conservative ax,
including a former presidential candidate — George
McGovern of South Dakota, who fell to GOP Rep. James
Abdnor.
The other former presidential candidate before the
voters this year — conservative Republican Barry Gold-
water of Arizona — also was in trouble in a close race.
Also among leading Senate Democrats falling before
the conservative tide were Appropriations Chairman
Warren Magnuson of Washington, and Sens. Birch Bayh
of Indiana, John Culver of Iowa, Gaylord Nelson of Wis
consin and John Durkin of New Hampshire.
Republicans also picked up two open Southern seats —
in Florida and Alabama — that were previously held by
Democrats.
In addition to the defeat of Brademas, the No. 3 man in
the House Democratic leadership, the No. 3 man in the
GOP leadership also lost. Rep. Sam Devine, R-Ohio, fell
to Democrat Bob Shamansky, a former television com
mentator who assaulted Devine with a well-run TV ad
campaign.
Recent scandals affected several races.
Abscam losers included the chairman of the House
Administration Committee, Frank Thompson of New
Jersey, and the chairman of the Merchant Marine and
Fisheries Committee, John Murphy of New York.
Reps. Michael Myers, D-Pa., and John Jenrette, D-
S.C., both convicted in the Abscam probe, also lost. But
Raymond Lederer, D-Pa., indicted in Abscam, won. So
did John Murtha, D-Pa., whose name was mentioned in
the scandal, but who was never charged.
Rep. Jon Hinson, R-Miss., who admitted frequenting a
movie house catering to homosexuals, won. But Rep.
Robert Bauman, R-Md., charged with soliciting sex from
a 16-year-old boy, lost.
However, a number of House and Senate members
who had been considered in trouble managed to pull
themselves out of defeat. Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz.,
chairman of the Interior Committee, won, as did House
Democratic leader Jim Wright of Texas and Sens. Gary
Hart, D-Colo., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
House Speaker Thomas O’Neill attributed the Demo
cratic House losses mainly to Ronald Reagan’s sweep of
the presidential race.
But Rep. Guy Vander Jagt, chairman of the House
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, which
ran a coordinated effort on behalf of hundreds of GOP
challengers across the country, said, “It’s the most
crushing rejection of a president and his party in Congress
since Herbert Hoover.”
He said anything over a net of 22 would be the biggest
Republican gain in a presidential election year since 30
seats went to the GOP in 1928. The party picked up 22 in
the 1952 Eisenhower landslide.
Clement’s campaign strategy is success
United Press International
j DALLAS—Ronald Reagan’s convincing
victory over President Carter in Texas
pds new prestige, and perhaps additional
ilitical clout, to the man who engineered
state campaign and aided in its financ-
[ing, Gov. Bill Clements.
Clements took charge of the Reagan
campaign in Texas immediately after the
iRepublican convention in Detroit, and pat
terned it after the successful 1978 campaign
that made him the state’s first GOP chief
executive since Reconstruction.
Reagan’s strategy was clear from the out
set — dominate the big cities as Gerald
Ford had done in 1976, but also cut into the
traditionally heavy Democratic margins in
rural counties. South Texas and among
minority voters.
The strategy worked perfectly, as
Reagan piled up substantial victory mar
gins in Dallas and Houston, while running
closer than Democrats expected in such
traditional Democratic strongholds as Be
xar County and the heavily Hispanic Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
With 86 percent of the state’s precincts
reporting, Reagan held a 55 to 42 percent
margin over Carter, with independent
John Anderson capturing only 2 percent.
The vote totals gave Reagan 1,917,280 to
Carter’s 1,482,930.
Clements had said immediately after his
election two years ago one of his primary
goals would be to carry the state for the
Republicans in 1980, and to get Jimmy Car
ter out of the White House.
“He’ll be King Kong for a while now,”
Democrat John Hill said of Clements’ role
in the presidential campaign. But Hill con
tended the luster of Clements’ perform
ance would dim as voters during the next
two years examined his record on state
issues.
“I can’t explain to you my pleasure at
Jimmy Carter going back to Georgia to
raise those peanuts,” Clements told a
crowd of 300 to 400 celebrating Republi
cans at a victory party in Austin Tuesday.
“Let’s forget about that guy.”
Brazos County has 72% turnout
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TEXAS
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i: This is a complete list of election returns for Brazos County,
giving totals in each race voted on in the county.
For election returns for Texas-wide, congressional and legisla
tive races, please see page 5.
Brazos County had 41,536 voters eligible for the Tuesday
general election. Of those, 30,153, or 72.59 percent, voted.
NOTE: A (*) beside a candidate's name indicates him to be the
overall winner; these totals are for Brazos County only.
President/Vice president
jRonald Reagan/George Bush (R) 17,798 (60.27%)
Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale (D) 9,856 (33.38%)
Ed Clark/David Koch (Lib) 421 ( 1.43%)
[ohn Anderson/Milton Eisenhower (I) 1,453 (4.92%)
U.S. Representative, District 6
)avid “Buster” Haskins (R) 6,151 (21.99%)
Phil Gramm (D) 21,821 (78.01%)
Railroad Commissioner
Henry C. "Hank” Grover (R) 11,083 (43.10%)
* Buddy Temple (D) 14,632 (56.90%)
Railroad Commissioner (unexpired term)
H.J. “Doc" Blanchard (R) 9,715 (37.74%)
'James E. “Jim” Nugent (D) 14,705 (57.12%)
3avid Hutzelman (Lib) 1,322 ( 5.14%)
Associate Justice, Supreme Court, PL 1
|im Brady (R) 12,020(48.15%)
fjames P. “Jim” Wallace (D) 12,946 (51.85%)
Associate Justice, Supreme Court, Pi. 2
Sears McGee (D) 16,499 (100%)
Associate Justice, Supreme Court, PI. 3
Robert M. Campbell (D) 16,358 (100%)
Associate Justice, Supreme Court, PI. 4
Will Garwood (R) 13,165 (54.87%)
♦C.L. Ray(D) 10,829(45.13%)
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, PI. 1
Marvin 0. Teague (D) 17,354 (100%)
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Pi. 2
Mike McCormick (D) 16,670 (100%)
Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals, Pi. 3
Tom Davis (D) 16,655 (100%)
Chief Justice, Court of Civil Appeals
Tom F. Coleman (D) 16,559 (100%)
Associate Justice, Court, of Civil Appeals, Dist. 1, PI. 1
Wells Stewart (R) 11,777 (49.72%)
Jack Smith (D) 11,912(50.28%)
Associate Justice, Court of Civil Appeals, Dist. 1, PL 2
Walter Conway (R) 11,373 (48.84%)
Henry E. Doyle (D) 11,911 (51.16%)
Associate Justice, Court of Civil Appeals, Dist. 1, PL 3
Sam Bums (R) 10,529 (45.03%)
James F. “Bud” Warren (D) 12,854 (54.97%)
Associate Justice, Court of Civil Appeals, Dist. 10
Vic Hall (D) 15,428 (100%)
Associate Justice, Court of Civil Appeals, Dist. 14, PI. 1
Paul C. Murphy (R) 11,434 (49.90%)
John B. Patrick (D) 11,478 (50.10%)
Associate Justice, Court of Civil Appeals, Dist. 14, PL 2
George E. Miller (D) 16,473 (100%)
Associate Justice, Court of Civil Appeals, Dist. 14, PL 3
Paul Pressler (D) 16,191 (100%)
Associate Justice, Court of Civil Appeals, Dist. 14, PL 4
William E. Junell (D) 15,820 (100%)
State Senator, District 5
N.A. McNiel (R) 10,752 (38.43%)
♦Kent Caperton (D) 17,229 (61.57%)
State Representative
Bill Presnal (D) 19,087 (100%)
District Judge, District 272
Bradley Smith (D) 18,340 (100%)
District Attorney
Travis B. Bryan HI (D) 19,238 (100%)
Judge, Court-at-Law
James A. Amis Jr. (D) 17,364 (100%)
County Attorney
♦Jeffrey K. Brown (R) 15,712 (57.66%)
John M. Barron Jr. (D) 11,539 (42.34%)
Sheriff
Bobby H. Yeager (D) 19,453 (100%)
Tax Assessor-Collector
Gerald F. “Buddy” Winn (D) 19,594 (100%)
Commissioner, Precinct 1
Bill J. Cooley (D) 4,390 (100%)
Commissioner, Precinct 3
♦Billy E. Beard (R) 5,402 (73.15%)
H.L. “Bud” Cargill (D) 1,983 (26.85%)
Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4
B.H. Dewery Jr. (D) 10,320 (100%)
Justice of the Peace, Precinct 7
Michael B. Calliham (D) 6,031 (100%)
Constable, Precinct 1
Raymond H. Day (D) 143 (100%)
Constable, Precinct 4
Paul E. Madison (R) 5,143 (40.03%)
♦Richard Fronterhouse (D) 7,706 (59.97%)
Constable, Precinct 5
Sam Fachom (D) 608 (100%)
Constable, Precinct 7
♦Winfred E. Pittman (R) 5,038 (54.65%)
E.W. Sayers (D) 4,180 (45.35%)
Proposition 1
♦For 19,985 (77.09%)
Against. 5,940 (22.91%)
Propsition 2
For 12,639(55.10%)
♦Against 10,300 (44.90%)
Proposition 3
♦For 14,632 (65.40%)
Against 7,742 (34.60%)
Proposition 4
♦For 18,031 (70.24%)
Against 7,641 (29.76%)
Propsition 5
For 10,958(46.11%)
♦Against 12,806 (53.89%)
Proposition 6
♦For 19,286 (78.41%)
Against 5,310 (21.59%)
Proposition 7
♦For 17,126(73.83%)
Against 6,072(26.17%)
Proposition 8
♦For 13,468 (63.71%)
Against 7,673 (36.29%)
Proposition 9
♦For 19,232 (79.44%)
Against 4,977 (20.56%)
Staff photo by George Dolan
Punching in the vote
Greg MacAnally, a sophomore industrial engineering major from League
City, casts his vote in 226 MSC Tuesday. The Precinct 20 ballot box,
located in the MSC, provided Texas A&M students registered on campus
a place to vote.
Texans approve bingo
as one of amendments
United Press International
DALLAS — Texans approved five con
stitutional amendments Tuesday, includ
ing a plan to legalize local option bingo and
another to permit banks to use electronic
tellers in scattered locations.
Also approved were amendments that
would permit small counties to work on
private roads and spouses to separate the
income from separate property.
Of two propositions that would increase
the powers of the governor, the voters
approved one and seemed to be rejecting
the other. Proposition 6, which allows the
governor to fire state officals he has
appointed, passed. But the voters were
apparently unwilling to give the governor
control over the spending by state agencies
of appropriated funds. Proposition 5 was
failing by 438,607 to 321,534.
The voters were also favoring an amend
ment that will require counties to join sing
le appraisal districts, which are now man
datory for all other taxing units. The result
would be a single appraisal for every piece
of property.
Amendments to change the court system
were failing. One would give criminal juris
diction to the courts of civil appeals in an
effort to reduce the burden on the over
loaded Court of Criminal Appeals. Fifty-
four percent of the voters were rejecting
that proposition. Fifty-three percent were
opposing Proposition 2, which would give
the state a limited right to appeal pre-trial
decisions in criminal cases.
The most controversial of the amend
ments, local option bingo, had 62 percent
of the votes with 194 counties reporting.
The campaign against bingo was led by reli
gious denominations, notably the Baptists,
who argued that it is gambling, it oppresses
the poor and the elderly and it invites orga
nized crime into the state.
Supporters argued that people love to
play the game, are going to play whether it
is legal or not, and the proceeds might as
well be regulated to be sure they support
good works. That viewpoint prevailed
Tuesday.
Proposition 1, permitting unmanned tel
ler machines, benefited from an extensive
campaign by the banks, deluging custom
ers with literature in their monthly state
ments and newspaper ads.
United Press International
PASADENA, Calif. — So far, 14 moons
have been discovered circling Saturn and
scientists believe several more moons will
be found before Voyager 1 ends its mission,
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory says.
Voyager will be closest to Saturn —
77,000 miles above its cloud tops — next
Wednesday. The spacecraft has traveled
over 1.3 billion miles since its launch Sept.
5, 1977.
The two satellites discovered by Voyager
as it approached the ringed planet in late
October bring the total number of Saturn’s
known moons to 14.
“That place is just loaded and they expect
Voyager 1 discovers moons
that several more will be detected,” JPL
spokesman Don Bane said Tuesday.
Naming these newly discovered moons
is no simple matter and they will not re
ceive official names until an international
group of astronomers and other scientists
meets in Greece in 1982.
For the time being, the satellites will be
designated by an “S” and a number. For
example, the last two moons will be known
as S-13 and S-14, Bane said.
Then the moons will be named provi
sionally by a task group for the outer solar
system of the International Astronomical
Union, said Voyager imaging team leader
Brad Smith.