I remember watching the presidential debate where Reagan zinged Jimmah with the "are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" I knew right then that it would all be downhill from there! May God grant him eternal rest.
People today forget what a news blackout and filtering went on in those days... it's apparent now, with all the alternative sources, but back then about all I knew about Mr. Reagan was that he'd been an actor, a spokesman for GE, and the Governor of California.
We simply heard very little from him, or about him here in Georgia.
Then, the Wall Street Journal started publishing guest editorials by him as well as his older writings, and I knew we had to move Heaven and Earth to get Carter out of the White House, and him installed.