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This marks the most recent of four occasions where a newly elected president entered office with a divided legislature, which also occurred in 1860, 1876, and 1884. 1876 is the only other occasion where the president's party held the Senate, but not the House. A divided Congress also occurred after
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when a chamber of Congress changed hands in a presidential election, and the first to do so since 1952. The 97th Congress was also the first since the
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were up for election. Republicans won majority control of the Senate for the first time in 26 years, picking up 12 seats and losing none.
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Thirteen of the fifty state governorships were up for election. Four state governorships changed hands from Democrat to Republican.
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played a large role in the 1980 elections. America was perceived by many to be weakening as a world power while the
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and 50.7 percent of the popular vote, while Carter won 41.0 percent of the popular vote and independent candidate
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Republicans picked up twelve Senate seats to take control of a chamber of Congress for the first time since the
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At the time, 60% of Americans polled felt that United States defense spending was too low.
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won the election in a landslide, receiving 489 electoral votes, defeating incumbent
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after the 1930 elections to have each house controlled by a different party.
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realignment in U.S. politics and marked the start of the
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1980 United States House of Representatives elections
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