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Quite simply, the President's victory further solidifies the longtime political lead the GOP has held over the Democrats in presidential elections since Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 died in 1945, and provides further evidence that the Democrats have little credibility in large swatches of the South and West...
...anglo-saxons or would like to think of themselves as part of the white male anglo-saxon mainstream. And in the South, where everybody attributes the racial gap in voting patterns to blind racism, the Democrats have yet to give 'jes plain folks a good reason not to vote GOP...
Each election cycle gives more weight to the claim that we are retrospective voters without a cemented ideological basis. In 1974, we punished the Republicans for Watergate and stripped them of more than 40 House seats. In 1980, we rejected President Carter and the Democratic malaise to give the GOP 34 seats. Two years ago, in the midst of the worst recession since pre-World War 11 days, we doled out 26 seats to the President's opposition party. And this year, we rewarded the Republicans with a 14-seat gift for the economic recovery...
However, one Democrat who crashed the party courtesy of a GOP pal said that "actually, we think it's a shame. We don't agree with his policies," said Angela B. Nahl '85. Her companion, David E. Ruiz '83-5, said, "I was hoping that Mondale would win, and we could celebrate in front of a lot of Republicans...
Running against former State Sen. Victor Ashe, Gore successfully went against the grain of Reagan's two-to-one victory in the Tennessee Presidential voting. He became one of three Democrats to wrest a Senate seat from the GOP...