The White Falcon - 14.11.1980, Blaðsíða 4

4 White Falcon November 14, 1980
Reagan leads party
to landslide victory
(Compiled from the wires of AP
and UPI) - Ronald Reagan at age 69
led the Republican party to a land-
slide victory.
The Republicans gained clear-cut
control of the Senate for the first
time in a quarter of a century. They
also gained 33 house seats and four
governorships.
Reagan won 44 states with 489
electoral votes while Carter took
only six states and the District of
Columbia with 49 electoral votes.
The Republican edge in the Senate
(53 - 47) makes this the first time
since 1916 that voters have elected
a Senate and House controlled by
different parties.
with Governor Reagan. But, I will be
the president for the next 2h months
until he takes office."
Reagan's top strategist, Richard
Wirthlin, told reporters that there
was no evidence whatsoever that the
hostage issue had any significant
effect on the election result.
Senators
Alabama Jeremiah Denton R
Alaska Frank Murkowski R
Arizona Barry Goldwater R x
Arkansas Dale Bumpers D x
California Alan Cranston D x
Colorado Gary Hart D x
Connecticut Christopher Dodd D
Florida Paula Hawkins R
Georgia Mack Mattingly R
Hawaii Daniel Inouve D x
Idaho Steven Symms R
Illinois Alan Dixon D x
Indiana Dan Quayle R
Iowa Charles Grassley R
Kansas Bob Dole L x
Kentucky Wendell Ford D x
Louisiana Russell Long D x
Maryland Charles Mathias R x
Missouri Thomas Eagleton D x
Nevada Paul Laxalt R x
New Hampshire Warren Rudman R
New York Alfonse D'Amato R
North Dakota Mark Andrews R
North Carolina John East R
Ohio John Glenn D x
Oklahoma Don Nickles R
Oregon Bob Packwood R
Pennsylvania Arlen Specter R
South Carolina Ernest Hollings D x
South Dakota James Abdnor R
Utah Jake Garn R x
Vermont Patrick Leahy D x
Washington Slade Gorton R
Wisconsin Robert Kasten R
D-Democrat R-Republican x incumbent
Governors
Arkansas Frank White R
Delaware Pierre Du Pont R x
Indiana Robert Orr R
Missouri Christopher Bond R
Montana Ted Schwinden D
New Hampshire Hugh Gallen D x
North Carolina James Hunt D x
North Dakota Allen Olson R
Rhode Island Joseph Garrahy D x
Utah Scott Matheson D x
Vermont Richard Snelling R x
Washington John Spellman R
West Virginia Jay Rockefeller D x
D-Democrat x incumbent R-Republican
Shift of power
The shift of power will signal
massive changes in the Senate
hierarchy. Senator Strom Thurmond
is slated to become president pro
tern and fourth in line for the
presidency. Senate Republican
leader Howard Baker is scheduled
to become the majority leader.
Republicans will also take over
all committee chairmanships and set
the agenda for the 97th Congress.
Some of the Senates most
prominent liberals lost their seats
around the country. Among them
were George McGovern of South
Dakota, a three-termer who was the
party's 1972 presidential candidate;
Warren Magnuson of Washington, 75-
year-old dean of the Senate and
Appropriations Committee chairman;
Frank Church of Idaho, 24-year
veteran and Foreign Relations Com-
mittee chairman; and Birch Bayh of
Indiana, an 18-year member of the
Senate who sought the 1976
presidential nomination.
Republicans score big
The Republicans scored big in
New York when their relatively
unknown Alfonse D'Amato defeated
Senator Jacob Javits, the liberal
party candidate, and the democratic
candidate Elizabeth Holtzman.
As the conservatives gain control
of the government it is expected
that the Equal Rights Amendment, the
SALT II Treaty, national health
insurance, and two new government
departments, the Department of
Energy and the Department of
Education, are doomed.
At the White House after the
election Carter showing no apparent
bitterness said he would devote the
closing days of his administration
to working to bring the Americans
home from Iran. He also pledged to
help Reagan in the transition and
he moved to bury some of their
campaign differences as he pledged
to "do everything I can to work
Wirthlin said, "We felt that, if
this election did come down to the
issue of the economic cluster, if
people asked themselves if there was
better hope to reduce inflation with
a Reagan presidency, we could win it
and that's exactly what happened in
the last four or five days of this
campaign."
When President-elect Ronald
Reagan met with reporters he said he
will do all he can to help gain the
release of American hostages in Iran
but that he could not intrude on
delicate relations in the remaining
months of President Carter's
Administration.
Transition team name1
Vice President-elect George Busl?
stood at Reagan's side as Reagan
said he has started the ball rolling
on the transition of administrations
but that "it's too early to get too
specific about who will get what
jobs."
He did, however, name two top
campaign officials, William Casey,
and Edwin Meese, as chairman and
director of his transition team.
He named two democratic law-
makers to his foreign policy trans-
ition panel. They are Senator Henry
Jackson of Washington and Senator
Richard Stone of Florida. Stone
was defeated in his primary last
summer, and will not be back in
congress when Reagan takes office.
One man who was not given an ap-
pointment whose name was mentioned
was Henry Kissinger. When Reagan
was asked whether he might give
Kissinger a job in the administ-
tration, he said that the announce-
ment of officials in his administra-
tion would have to wait for later in
the transition.
That was a key part of Reagan's
tone, he kept saying that he
couldn't make specific appointments
now, and didn't want to seem to b,
dictating American government pol
now - because he isn't president
now.