THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, October 19, 1996 TAG: 9610190473
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: 135 lines
from Congressional Quarterly, Almanac of American Politics, World
Almanac and World Book Encyclopedia. ILLUSTRATION: Photos
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Can Bill Clinton actually win an electorate that has snubbed
national cycles and moods to remain a bedrock of conservatism in
presidential affairs?
1992
Republican George Bush 45%, Democrat Bill Clinton 41% and
Independent Ross Perot 14%.
1988
Republican George Bush 60% and Democrat Michael Dukakis 32%.
1984
Republican Ronald Reagan 62% and Democrat Walter Mondale 37%.
Jesse Jackson becomes the first African American to make a
serious bid for the presidency. He wins about 3.2 million votes
during the Democratic primaries.
Vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, a Democrat,
becomes the first woman to run on a major-party ticket.
1980
Republican Ronald Reagan 53%, Democrat Jimmy Carter 40% and
Independent John Anderson 4%.
The United States boycotts the Olympic Games in Moscow to
protest Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
The nation's first in-vitro fertilization clinic opens in
Norfolk.
Virginia Beach Pavilion opens.
1976
Republican Gerald Ford 49% and Democrat Jimmy Carter 48%.
Carter, of Georgia, wins 10 of the former Confederate states;
Republicans retains one holdout: Virginia.
1972
Republican Richard Nixon 68% and Democrat George McGovern 30%.
Eastern Virginia Medical School opens in Norfolk.
1971
The 26th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which lowers the
voting age to 18, is ratified.
1969
After the virtual collapse of ``Massive Resistance'' - to
desegregation - in the '50s, Linwood Holton, a believer in
integration, is elected the first Republican governor of Virginia.
1968
Republican Richard Nixon 43%, Democrat Hubert Humphrey 32%, and
American Independent George Wallace 24%.
Three men aboard Apollo 8 orbit the moon 10 times.
1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is passed, banning the use of a
poll tax as a requirement to vote and forbidding major changes in
Southern voting laws without approval of the Department of Justice.
1964
Democrat Lyndon Johnson 54% and Republican Barry Goldwater 46%.
The Civil Rights Act is passed, banning discrimination in voting
and jobs.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is opened.
1960
Republican Richard Nixon 52% and Democrat John F. Kennedy 47%.
Congress approves a Voting Rights Act.
The FDA approves the contraceptive pill for public use.
1956
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 55% and Democrat Adlai Stevenson
38%.
``Massive Resistance'' to Supreme Court desegregation ruling
called for by 101 Southern congressmen.
1952
Republican Dwight Eisenhower 56% and Democrat Adlai Stevenson
43%.
Virginia, Texas, Tennessee and Florida were the first Southern
states to break from the Democrats' ``Solid South'' in voting for
Eisenhower over Stevenson.
Future governor George F. Allen born in California.
1948
Democrat Harry Truman 48%, Republican Thomas E. Dewey 41% and
``Dixiecrat'' Strom Thurmond 10%.
1944
Democrat Franklin Roosevelt 62% and Republican Thomas E. Dewey
37%.
S.S. Dauser becomes the first female captain of the U.S. Navy.
G.I. Bill of Rights goes into effect.
1940
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt 68% and Republican Wendell Willkie
32%.
McDonald's hamburger stands begin at a drive-in California.
1936
Democrat Franklin Roosevelt 70% and Republican Alf Landon 29%.
First Volkswagens are manufactured in Germany.
Black U.S. athlete Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the
summer Olympic Games in Hitler's Berlin.
1932
Democrat Franklin Roosevelt 68% and Republican Herbert Hoover
30%.
Five-day work week becomes standard for government employees.
1928
For the first time this century, Virginia backs a Republican,
Herbert Hoover, 54%; Democrat Al Smith, 46%.
1924
Democrat John Davis 62% and Republican Calvin Coolidge 33%.
George Gershwin writes ``Rhapsody in Blue.''
1920
Democrat James Cox 61% and Republican Warren Harding 38%.
The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the
right to vote, is ratified.
1916
Democrat Woodrow Wilson 67% and Republican Charles Hughes 32%.
Prohibition goes into effect in Virginia.
1912
Democrat Woodrow Wilson 66%, Republican William Howard Taft 17%
and ``Bull Moose'' candidate Theodore Roosevelt 16%.
The Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic on
its maiden voyage.
1908
Democrat William Jennings Bryan 60% and Republican William Howard
Taft 38%.
Ford makes the Model T, the ``Tin Lizzie,'' which seats two and
costs $850.
1904
Democrat Alton Parker 62% and Republican Theodore Roosevelt 37%.
1900
Democrat William Jennings Bryan 55% and Republican William
McKinley 44%.
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