Polls have consistently indicated that this year’s presidential race is exceedingly close. That election ended in a near-landslide for Reagan, who won the popular vote by nearly 10 percentage points.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) — With former president Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Johnstown, we thought we’d look back at other times that national campaigns targeted the Johnstown area. In this week’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Paul Kengor, who authored the pair of books that served as inspiration for the movie "Reagan," sees similarities between the impending showdown between former President Trump and Vice ...

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CNN’s coverage of the 1980 US presidential election, broadcast just five months after the network’s launch, featured the analog predecessor of its now-essential election night prop: the “Magic Wall” ...

The U.S. stock market was closed on Election Day through the 1980 election. How it has performed on Election Day in the years since: -- Nov. 6, 1984: Hours before Ronald Reagan beats Walter Mondale in ...

In trying to come to grips with a surprisingly big and wide-ranging electoral victory by Donald Trump and his Republican Party on November 5, the search for precedents is inevitable. And to a lot of ...

Polls have consistently indicated that this year’s presidential race is exceedingly close. At the same time, there have been a few murmurs among analysts that the election endgame could repeat that of ...