[jveritas]

Reagan Democrats

They do not exist anymore, there are only Republicans and independents leaning Republican as well as democrats and independents leaning democrat.

[Arkinsaw]

They do not exist anymore, there are only Republicans and independents leaning Republican as well as democrats and independents leaning democrat.

Fine, then its about the independents who would have voted for Reagan.

I am fairly amazed at those who think this will have no effect. There are a lot of voters. A goodly portion of them don't have strong ties to either party. For instance, some older voters like the Democratic concept of bribing them with stuff....but they often vote Republican anyway because of social values. This erodes one of the reasons they vote for Republicans just by them seeing it on tv.

How much? I don't know. Could be a little, could be a lot. But it will obviously have some corrosive effect on some specific blocs of sway voters.

Given the evenly divided nature of those who vote, as evidenced by previous elections, that is not a good thing.

But mention this very obvious fact and you are a basher.