The demographics Reagan faced were very different from today. Mexicans were over 10% of the electorate for the first time today. They were 75% Obama.
How many Somalis voted? How many moslems are here voting now?
There has also been an explosion in the number of unmarried women since 1980 who want a president for a husband.
And though we may not like it, the kids born since 1990 were educated and indoctrinated that homosexuality is almost sacred. They feel the same about abortion.
The huge majority of them will never deviate from this belief. They are the modern version of the 80 year olds who vote democrat for 6 decades because the love FDR.
Reagan never faced what we have today.
>>>Reagan never faced what we have today.
But I still think Reagan could have won.
You’ve described many of the reasons we homeschool!
You are correct about the kids born from 1990 on - I have two of them and even with ALL the educating I took on at home, society has them brainwashed regarding gay marriage and abortion.
The amount of ‘kids’ I talked to over the last 6 months that truly believed we were going to make birth control illegal, was stunning! THAT was the power of the media and the likes of dumb a** Jon Stewart/David Lettermen/et al...
As for the gay marriage, nothing I shared made a dent in the mantra of ‘that’s not fair, they have the same rights’ blah blah blah - it is heart wrenching. May God curse the filthy gays pushing this evil and everyone who goes along with it.
I have to disagree. I recall how Reagan had to buck the anti-war Liberals and his own Republican Party with everyone predicting his failure. Yes, the demographics and social attitudes have changed to some substantial degree, but Reagan did one thing that more than made up for what we see today. He motivated voters to go out and vote and vote Republican. In my preliminary look at the numbers, I find Romney actually had fewer voters than his predeceessors, but so did Obama. Obama actually lost twice as many voters than Romney. Romney actually improved his percentage share of the voters by 2% despite the reduced number of voters. I’m currently looking for the lost voters, and I’ve so far found about 1 million lost voters in New York and New Jersey for Obama, while Romney lost only 1/2 million voters in those two states. Looking around at some states not affected by Hurricane Sandy, I don’t find such dramatic losses of voters. So, it appears the loss of voter turnout is in part due to the storm damage and in part due to voter disgust and apathy with both candidates.