Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidate won the nation's "youth vote," voters between the age of 18 and 24, in 1984 and again in 1988. And if you ask anyone here why Reagan and Bush have been able to win that youth vote, you get a number of different answers...
Most of the college students here with the Youth Coalition might have their hearts set on a second Bush Administration, but a number of them are sporting "Reagan '96" signs in hope of a return to The White House by the former president. "We like George Bush, but Reagan did great things for this country," said John Hotaling, a sophomore at George Mason University in Virginia...
HOUSTON--Former President Ronald W. Reagan took center stage tonight with a comprehensive defense of the last 12 years of Republican rule, as the Grand Old Party kicked off its national convention yesterday...
...addresses of the 35th Republican National Convention, which featured Reagan and defeated Republican challenger Patrick J. Buchanan, highlighted the foreign policy achievements of the Bush Administration and furiously attacked Democratic nominee Bill Clinton...
Nothing could better demonstrate how former sources of strength have become signs of weakness than the scheduling of a convention speech by Ronald Reagan. That would until recently have been considered a surefire way of rallying the troops with memories of glory. But every reaffirmation of Reaganism traps Bush more helplessly in the real Reagan legacy -- the deficit that Reaganites are prevented from addressing. They cannot even admit it is a problem without being called defectors from the great man's cause. Reagan will come to forgive George Bush for raising taxes -- and to make sure he never does...