Lemme out!
Seeking relief from the pressures of a grueling campaign season, this young politico decided he'd had enough yesterday and tried to escape. By the time he's ready to
vote, Michael Weil, 1, may not remember the day Ronald Reagan swept 49 states. But the voters and poll workers probably won't forget for a while. See page 12.
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Wednesday, November 7, 1984
Vol. 95, No. 53 (USPS 650-640)
ELECTION RESULTS
PRES./VICE PARTY VOTES
Mondale/Ferraro Dem. 41%
Reagan/Bush Rep. 59%
87% of votes counted
U.S. SENATOR PARTY VOTES
Kassebaum Rep. 78%
Maher Dem. 22%
82% of precincts reporting
U.S. REP./2ND PARTY VOTES
Peterson Pro. n/a
Slattery Dem. 59%
Van Slyke Rep. 41%
83% of precincts reporting
U.S. REP./3RD PARTY VOTES
Meyers Rep. 58%
Reardon Dem. 42%
98% of precincts reporting
STATE SEN./2ND PARTY VOTES
Seaman Dem. 6,630
Winter Rep. 16,402
91% of precincts reporting
STATE SEN./11TH PARTY VOTES
Allen Rep. 3,481
Rodrock Dem. 2,473
78% of precincts reporting
STATE REP./43RD PARTY VOTES
Miller Rep. 2,829
Schmidt Dem. 781
91% of precincts reporting
STATE REP./44TH PARTY VOTES
Branson Dem. 6,376
91% of precincts reporting
STATE REP./45TH PARTY VOTES
Parker Rep. 3,262
Solbach Dem. 4,882
91% of precincts reporting
STATE REP./46TH PARTY VOTES
Charleton Dem. 3,555
Hack Rep. 2,484
91% of precincts reporting
DISTRICT ATTY. PARTY VOTES
Flory Rep. 15,156
Glover Dem. 13,021
91% of precincts reporting
KS. BOARD OF ED. PARTY VOTES
Benson Dem. 38%
Hubbell Rep. 56%
Huber Lib. 4%
66% of votes counted
CO. COMM./2ND PARTY VOTES
Neis Rep. 4,450
Hopper Dem. 4,844
91% of precincts reporting
CO. COMM./3RD PARTY VOTES
Lubensky Dem. 3,495
Rhodes Rep. 4,264
91% of precincts reporting
COUNTY CLERK PARTY VOTES
Jaimes Rep. 17,930
Sampson Dem. 9,627
91% of precincts reporting
COUNTY TREAS. PARTY VOTES
Welsh Rep. 15,584
Vervynck Dem. 12,213
91% of precincts reporting
REG. OF DEEDS PARTY VOTES
Neustifter Dem. n/a
91% of precincts reporting
SHERIFF PARTY VOTES
Johnson Rep. 17,023
Rothwell Dem. 10,696
91% of precincts reporting
Reagan takes 49 states
LOS ANGELES — President Ronald Reagan gives the thumbs-up sign to campaign workers during "Victory 84 Celebration" at the Century Plaza.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — American voters gave President Reagan a massive landslide victory yesterday over Democrat Walter Mondale, with Republicans retaining their Senate majority and moving toward working control of the House.
Democrats managed to retain numerical control of the House, however, capturing more than the necessary 218 seats for majority.
"Good habits are hard to break." a smiling Reagan told a crowd of cheering supporters in Los Angeles who chanted "Four more years."
Mondale conceded shortly after the West Coast polls closed, congratulating Reagan on his victory and saying, "We honor him tonight." Reminding his followers "we are all Americans," the defeated Democrat urged, "Let us fight on. . . Let us continue to seek an America that is just and fair."
At 2:34 a.m. CST, with 87 percent of the vote counted nationwide, Reagan had 46,547,607 votes for 59 percent to Mondale's 32,924,494 votes for 41 percent. Reagan won 525 million votes, while Mondale had captured home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia for 13 electoral votes.
If Mondale gets no more, his showing will be the second worst in history - better only than Republican Alfred Landon's eight votes in 1936 against Franklin D. Roosevelt, a president whose image Reagan often invokes and whose popularity he rivals.
Reagan's victory margin hovered below the record 61.1 percent of the popular vote Lyndon Johnson received in his 1964 landslide over Barry Goldwater. His electoral total was almost the same as Richard Nixon's triumph over George McGovern in 1972, when the Democrat collected just 17 electoral votes.
ESTIMATES OF THE turnout, based on partial returns, suggested that 53.5 percent of eligible voters went to the polls - up from the
HOW KANSAS VOTED
Mondale 244,221
Reagan 469,375
HOW DOUGLAS CO. VOTED
Mondale 11,630
Dale 15,794
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Reagan 16,734
52. 6 percent figure for 1980, but well below the 1990 high-water mark of 62.5 percent.
With a Reagan landslide predicted in the polls for weeks, the big question on Election Day was whether his coattails were broad enough to sweep enough Republicans to the House to give him voting control when he loses. He crosses the aisle to convert his program.
other key races. Initial results did not show a GOP pickup as substantial as the 20 to 25 seats needed to give them ideological control, but they scored gains in the South, capturing two Democratic seats in North Carolina and two more in Texas.
Republicans captured bellwether Democratic House seats in Connecticut and New Jersey and were running close in several
IN THE SENATE, Democratic incumbent Walter Huddleston of Kentucky was defeated, but Democratic Rep. Albert Gore picked up the Tennessee seat vacated by Republican leader Howard Baker and GOP Sen. Roger Jepsen was defeated by Democratic Rep. Tom Harkin in Iowa.
The size of the final Republican margin in the Senate will depend on the outcome of two races that went down to the wire with incumbents trailing GOP Sen. Charles Percy of Louisiana, chairman of the Senate Relative Committee on Democratic Sep. Carl Levin of Michigan.
Before yesterday's voting, Republicans held a 55-45 Senate edge, while Democrats controlled the House 266-167, with two vacancies.
"We sent out the word 20 years ago that we could start a prairie fire here in California." Reagan told cheering supporters as he claimed victory.
"OUR WORK ISN'T finished." there's much more to be done," he said. "So many people act as if this election was the end of something. Tonight is not the end of anything, it's the beginning of everything."
A weary House Speaker Thomas O'Neill
the top Democrat in Washington for the past
See ELECTION, p. 6, col. 2
Area incumbents enjoy taste of victory
By the Kansan Staff
Election Day shined on the incumbents in area races for the Kansas Legislature, as voters sent three Democrats back to the House and a Republican back to the Senate.
Democrat State Reps. John Solbach, Betty Jo Charlton and Jessie Branson, all of Lawrence, won re-election to the House. Republican State Sen. Wint Winter Jr. will return to the Senate, a post he had earlier been appointed to.
Solbach won his fourth term as the 45th District state representative, defeating Republican Martha Parker by winning all but three of the 15 precinct voting.
Charlion won another term as 46th District state representative by carrying all 11 precincts in her race against Republican Julie Hack.
Charlton said last night that she had expected to win but not by such a large margin. Results of 2 a m. today showed Lionel ahead of Hack 3,553 visits to 2,408 fans.
IN THE 44TH district representative race, no one was surprised when Branson won another term. She was was opposed only by write-in candidate Garry Bickles.
"I feel pretty good right now," Branson said at the County Court House. "I really wasn't worried about my write-in opponent. But, I kind of thought he'd get more votes than he did."
As of 1:20 this morning, Winter, of Lawrence, was beating Seaman 14,959 to 5.952
For the State Senate, Winter was given a convincing victory over Lawrence attorney Lawrence Seaman Jr., his Democratic opponent.
IN THE 457th District, Solbach won 4,367 votes to Parker's 3,092 vote. The district is largely rural but covers the northern, southern and western city limits.
Sobach said that he had expected that margin of victory and that he was pleased with the way the campaign had been run.
"I am very happy with all of this," he said. Parker, who conceded defeat with about half of the precincts reporting, said Sobach's injury edge was too much for her to overcome.
"This is so great. It's the best I've ever done."
Charlton was pleased by her victory. "I really thought I would win," she said. "But I certainly didn't expect this much of a victory.
CHARLTON'S OPPONENT, HACK, lost the precinct in which she lives by 116 votes according to the unofficial tally last late
night at the Douglas County Court House.
Hack walked across the county treasurer's office to congratulate Charlton when the company was inducted.
Branson won her third term by beating Bickser 6,376 to 212, according to the unofficial tally of votes about 2:30 this morning.
Bickser was not available for comment. He had launched a campaign in the closing weeks of the race to oppose Branson's pro-choice stand on abortion. He did not have the endorsement of the Douglas County Republican Party.
Senate candidate Winter also said he thought he scored well in precincts in areas with a large population of KU students. The 2nd Senate District covers Douglas County except for southern Willow Springs and Palmyra townships and Baldwin City.
New people to dominate county posts
By the Kansan Staff
Douglas County will have a new district attorney, two new county commissioners and a new county treasurer as a result of yesterday's election.
Republican Jim Flory edged Democrat Mike Glover to win the district attorney's race. Unofficial returns from 43 of 46 candidates in 14,873 votes for Flory to 12,558 for Glover.
Republican Rex Johnson, county sheriff,
will add another four years to his 20 years in office after a decisive victory over Democrat Merle Rothwell. Johnson received large support across the county, especially in the rural areas.
Democrat Hodop Hopter beat incumbent Republican Bob Neis for the 2nd District County Commission seat. Republican Warren Rhodes beat Democrat Linda Lubensky for the 3rd District seat. At 1:12 a.m., Hopter won by 0.62 points, leading Lubensky 3,961 votes to 3,055 votes.
Republican Nancy Welsh took an early lead and unsecured incumbent Ruth Vervynck as county treasurer. With 38 of 46 precincts in the election, she won, Welsh led, 13,065 votes to 10,209 votes.
Incumbent Republican Patty Jaimes jumped ahead early in the county clerk's race as results were tabulated. She went on to win the challenger, Deborah Sampson, nearly 2-10.
In the district attorney's race, Flory said his election supported what he had maintained throughout his campaign — that he
See COUNTY, p. 6, col. 1
Chris Magert/KANSAT
Kate Barron, left, secretary-treasurer of the College Young Democrats, and Kirstin Buterbaugh Myers, Young Democrats president, join others at a candlelight vigil inside the Campanile.
Group vigil mourns win by president
Staff Reporter
"This whole situation is just typical of what happened tonight," Kate Barron, the organization's secretary-treasurer, said as the small group went inside the Campanile to get out of the wind. "Whether or not they stay ill, a light has gone out tonight."
Wind blew furiously through the Campanile last night, but some members of College Young Democrats managed to keep their candles lit during their vigil mourning the re-election of President Reagan.
Bv CHRIS CLEARY
The 11 core members of the Democratic group, wearing black arm bands, met for the candlelight vignet to mollur the presence of protesters in fight against the Reagan administration.
"We will make our presence known," said Kirstin Butterbag Myers, Young Democrats president. "We are a force to be reckoned with."
"The man has been re-elected and I don't know why." Myers said. "We must provide a countermovement to keep the Republicans from getting what they want.
The group gathered in a circle, the candles illuminating their faces, as Myers led them to an archway.
"Our biggest consolation is that in six months, everyone is going to say they voted for Mondale. It won't be a happy 'told you so.' They voted on an image."
See VIGIL, p. 6, col. 1