It’s not 1980 anymore.
The group that keeps citing “Reagan 1980” aren’t acknowledging where the playing field is in 2012.
In 1980 this was a predominantly white country with an awful lot of WWII generation people who worked for a living. The Reagan democrats are generally dead and have been replaced with “Loretta” a Hispanic immigrant who makes 70k a year as a teacher in the California public school district.
Today we are an ethnically diverse group with a very large group of people who are dependent on govt benefits or a govt paycheck.
Add in a black candidate in Obama who will bring out the black vote and black inner city vote fraud and you got a situation where Barry will have a BASE percentage of 47 percent. Minimum.
The only way we beat Obama in 2012 is to take 65 to 70 percent of that ten percent in the middle. And that crew wrote off Palin two years ago and thinks she is Tina Fey.