[Waryone]

His margin came from "Reagan democrats," basically blue collar voters who liked him personally even though they disagreed with his policies disagreed with his fiscal policies while agreeing with his social polices.

Fixed it for you.

These Reagan democrats were just as pro life as Reagan and recognized that their party had abandoned the unborn. They were, however, liberal democrats but Reagan's personal likability allowed them to realize they had a lot in common with him. It was part of Reagan's big tent ideology -- you did not have to compromise your principles to get the people of the other party who agree with you to join you.

Reagan was right, but unfortunately, today the GOPe wants you believe that big tent means abandoning your beliefs to let everyone in, whether they agree with your principles or not. Reagan was not part of this big mushy middle.

[tom h]

Hat's off to you for setting my words straight. I've been posting elsewhere on FR, especially prior to the election this month, that Romney's forecasted win of 50-48 was really no different than Reagan's, except for the complication of the 3rd party candidate in 1980. Most of the FR yahoos were critizing Romney for not being a strong enough candidate to get 55% of the vote.