Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A party that once fiercely debated ERA and abortion, now routinely approves platforms endorsing the social conservative agenda, without heated platform debate on the convention floor.
Eight years ago, it would've been unthinkable that a fundamentalist television evangelist would be delivering major addresses during prime time at a Republican convention. Reagan helped changed that.
Dukakis, on the other hand, can identify with Hispanics just on the sole reason that he spoke Spanish, and very fluent Spanish, at the Democratic Convention. Dukakis can go out and directly talk to Hispanic voters without anyone having to translate for him. He can talk about his background as...
What Hispanics see in Dukakis is what Bush lacks: sincerity. Dukakis has made a symbolic attempt at the Convention to speak to Hispanics in their native tongue that will most likely result in Hispanics voting Democratic in November.
The Reagan coalition included Republicans and conservative Democrats, white ethnic voters, Hispanics--especially Cubans--and evangelicals. But for the most part, Blacks did not participate in the Reagan Revolution. Only 3 percent of delegates to the 1984 GOP Convention were Black, and only 4 percent of delegates here in New...