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Showing Original Post only (View all)What must it have been like to be a Democrat after the 1984 election? [View all]
I'm reading history, and in our current era of narrow, tightly-contested elections, I can't even imagine what a 49-state defeat would have felt like. Were there a lot of Chicken Littles who proclaimed that the Democratic Party would be going extinct? How did the political party bounce back?
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What must it have been like to be a Democrat after the 1984 election? [View all]
PlanetaryOrbit
Jun 2014
OP
I have been saying Democrat Party since 1950 and so have many other good democrats. You need
jwirr
Jun 2014
#35
"Doesn't remember the 1984 election" isn't "obviously young", considering that was 30 years ago.
Spider Jerusalem
Jun 2014
#5
Democrats lost three Presidential elections in a row. It looked bad for a while.
stevenleser
Jun 2014
#6
We had already watched Richard Nixon carry 49 states in 1972 over George McGovern.
pnwmom
Jun 2014
#7
We found that many 'Democratic' voters were actualy Republican who voted for Reagan and Nixon
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2014
#18
Reaching out to Middle is not the same as selling soul to Wall St and Big Business
Armstead
Jun 2014
#19
What pundits WERE saying was that the Republicans had an "electoral lock" on the Presidency...
brooklynite
Jun 2014
#8
I was just over 30 then… Even then I knew Reagan's dementia was being covered up...
MrMickeysMom
Jun 2014
#43
What do you mean, "What MUST it HAVE BEEN like....?" It was only 30, not 300, years ago!
WinkyDink
Jun 2014
#34
it was the first time I realized there were so many stupid, easily fooled Americans
Skittles
Jun 2014
#40