293: Governor Ronald Reagan(D-CA)/Governor Reubin Askew(D-FL) - 47.3%
245: President Gerald Ford(R-MI)/Vice President Nelson Rockefeller(R-NY) - 47.0%
Eugene McCarthy/La Donna Harris - 3.8%
Others - 1.9%
Reagan's Cabinet is largely conservative.
Conservatives dominated Defense(Jeane Kirkpatrick), Treasury(John Connally), Justice(John Rarick), HUD(Sam Yorty), HEW(William Howard Taft IV). Commerce(Elizabeth Hanford-Carter, who married Jack Carter), and Interior(Howell Heflin). Other major positions varied, such as State(Cyrus Vance), Agriculture(James Abourzek), Labor(Dolores Huerta), Energy(Dixy Lee Ray), Ann Z. Caracristi(NSA), and Education(Shirley Chisholm). Also of note is that Condoleeza Rice would begin working for the Bureau of African Affairs, eventually becoming Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in June of 1978. Condoleeza Rice later became Assistant Secretary of State for Global Women's Issues, in June of 1980
Of Reagan's three SCOTUS appointments, two were liberal(Morris Udall, who had ran for Senate in 1976 and barely failed) and Birch Bayh(who had become Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1977, when Eastland resigned after suffering a heart attack). However, the third one was Rufus L. Edmisten, a previous Counsel to Sam Ervin and a conservative ally with a strong pro-civil liberties stance. Edmisten was a powerful conservative voice on the SC in future years.
