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The American Congressional Election: Reagan’s Recalcitrant Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Harvey C. Mansfield Jr.
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IN THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION OF 1982 RONALD REAGAN asked the American people to ‘stay the course’, and they have just responded with a definite negative that is nonethless difficult to interpret. The results were bad for the Republicans: a 26-seat loss in the House of Representatives, creating a 99-seat Democratic majority and ending the de facto Reagan majority there; and a loss of seven state governors together with many state representatives. The Republicans held their margin of eight in the Senate.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1983 , pp. 144 - 156
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1983

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1 See Mansfield, Harvey C. Jr., ‘The American Election: Towards Constitutional Democracy?’, Government and Opposition, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1981, pp. 3–18.Google Scholar