Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should begin by acknowledging what we all know deep in our hearts. The Reagan coalition is dead. The mood, the people and the issues that all came together in 1980 are gone, and we would be deluding ourselves if we thought we could recreate the coalition again...
...this in numerical terms. Ronald Reagan received 51 percent of the vote in 1980. If a future Republican nominee were to receive exactly the same percentages from exactly the same groups today, he would only take 47 percent of the vote. Our voters--the educated, the wealthy, the religious--make up a decreasing share of the total vote pool with every election...
...children, and our future, have been stolen from us. In 1984, young voters were Ronald Reagan's strongest constituency, approaching 65 percent of the vote. This year, George Bush barely received one-third of this important and growing constituency...
Because of Ronald Reagan, Republicans had begun to make inroads within traditional Democratic constituencies. Hispanics, Jews, union rank-and-file--all were trending in our direction. Yet in 1992, only 25 percent of the Hispanics, 24 percent of the union members, and just one out of ten Jewish voters pulled the Republican line...
...depend on the Reagan coalition, we lose. We must redefine ourselves. There is no choice...