[You Dirty Rats]

The greatest majority of the RAT voting block will pull the handle for anything with a D after the name. They can run a moderate, liberal, radical leftest, or and out and out Communist and they will still get most of their base.

Then please explain how Reagan won Massachusetts in 1984.

[Beagle8U]

"Then please explain how Reagan won Massachusetts in 1984."

Perhaps the political topics of the day favored Reagan more?

Carter created more Republican voters than anyone in history!

We also have the Internet now and that has only been a major factor since the 2000 elections. Things have changed a bunch in the past 20 years.