Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful presidency, in terms of economic growth and national strength and pride, especially in contrast to the turbulent terms that preceded it. Said Edward Reilly, a Boston-based pollster who conducted national research for Mondale: "The status quo with Reagan was preferable to the risk of going back to Carter-Mondale. There was no compelling reason to leave Reagan." The very notion of having a President serve two terms might have proved significant to many voters...
...exit polls showed that Reagan did worse among voters ages 18 to 24 than he did with any other age group, splitting them evenly with Carter at 44%. On Tuesday young voters went 60% to 40% for Reagan. What changed their minds? A University of Alabama student leader may have answered at a Reagan rally last month when he declared, "Mr. President, we feel with you in office that when we graduate...
...approximately 60,000 to 80,000 soldiers, supplemented by as many as 200,000 reservists, is proportional to an eight to nine million-member U.S. army and a 25 million-strong reserve. The argument that U.S. government policy prompted this buildup is absurd; it began long before Jimmy Carter abandoned his accommodating stance toward the Nicaraguan Revolution...
...With the exception of Jimmy Carter, no Democrat has won a clear victory in the south in 40 years--even in 1964, when Johnson lost Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina...
...easy to promptly purge all the Mondale-Carter and McGovernite elements, as the Party has done in the past. And it is easy for the Democrats to decide to do something, anything, differently than they have in the past three or four elections...