1982 Mid-Term Elections
...Jeffords announced the formation of the party, which is for both center/center-left Democrats and Republicans rejecting Reagan. Silvio Conte (R-MA) and Pete McCloskey (R-CA) joined immediately, while Stuart McKinney (R-CT), Millicent Fenwick (R-NJ) and Harold Hollenbeck joined later...
Rise of the Liberal Party, by Bob Woodward (2008)
...The Liberal Party's slate of candidates for the 1982 midterms was interesting. The people who won ranged from a 58-year-old suburban housewife to a civil-rights activist and former Baptist minister turned rancher from southwest Kentucky. Speaking of the Kentuckian, it would be helpful to mention him. John E. White barely won in Kentucky's 5th District. He was one of the only candidates of the party in the south. But he had one advantage- Reagan. Not Reagan himself, but rather Rep. Hal Rodgers's breaking with him. a Reaganist ran to Rodgers's right and was barely defeated, but then ran a third-party challenge. The democrats, seeing that White had a better chance of winning, "accidentally" forgot to file a candidate. White won with 36.1% of the vote...
Nothing to Something: The Story of The Liberal Party; by Newt Gingrich (distinguished historian and Alternate History author), 2007
1982 House Elections:
Democratic: 269 (+26)
Republican: 158 (-34)
Liberal: 9 (+9)
Coservative: 0 (-1)
1982 Senate Elections:
Republican: 50 (-4)
Democratic: 46 (-)
Liberal: 4 (+4)
Rise of the Liberal Party, by Bob Woodward (2008)
...The Liberal Party's slate of candidates for the 1982 midterms was interesting. The people who won ranged from a 58-year-old suburban housewife to a civil-rights activist and former Baptist minister turned rancher from southwest Kentucky. Speaking of the Kentuckian, it would be helpful to mention him. John E. White barely won in Kentucky's 5th District. He was one of the only candidates of the party in the south. But he had one advantage- Reagan. Not Reagan himself, but rather Rep. Hal Rodgers's breaking with him. a Reaganist ran to Rodgers's right and was barely defeated, but then ran a third-party challenge. The democrats, seeing that White had a better chance of winning, "accidentally" forgot to file a candidate. White won with 36.1% of the vote...
Nothing to Something: The Story of The Liberal Party; by Newt Gingrich (distinguished historian and Alternate History author), 2007
1982 House Elections:
Democratic: 269 (+26)
Republican: 158 (-34)
Liberal: 9 (+9)
Coservative: 0 (-1)
1982 Senate Elections:
Republican: 50 (-4)
Democratic: 46 (-)
Liberal: 4 (+4)
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