[ari-freedom]

in other words, a real republican is someone who loses elections. Reagan can't be a real republican because he won New Jersey, NY and California.

[Republican Wildcat]

http://www.presidentelect.org/e1988.html

You can find a lot more maps there - historically NJ usually has gone GOP - didn’t lean Dem until the 1992 election forward - so it does have some underlying GOP history to it that could maybe pop up again.

[Grunthor]

Comparing McCain to Reagan is akin to comparing a diamond to the fecal material of a canine.