It was indeed a great night for America. May we see the same result this November; i.e., a conservative Republican unseating a failed, liberal, statist, Democratic President. Please God.....
Interesting historical note that back then the red versus blue states were different. What they called the blue states are now the red states. Perhaps back then the blue states represented what were incumbents versus the opposition rather than at it is now by party line.
*NOTICE: Republican states were always BLUE, Democrat RED. The connection between Socialism-Communism (red) and the Dem. party was something the media wanted to down-play, the shift was made in the 1988 election maps on networks.
@Soxogram and also interesting is that Blue (or light gray for black & White TV at 0:52 ) was used to depict a Republican state. I looked it up and the whole Red state Vs. Blue state thing wasn't used to depict party sides until around 2000.
Republican Red and Democrat Blue wouldn't be the case until some years later. The use of color for the winner in each state was John Chancellor's idea. From the same NBC that had "red" and "blue" radio networks up until World War II.
People talk about how impressive Obama's win was in 2008, but it was nothing compared to Reagan's win in 1980, or Reagan's win in 1984, or Nixon's win in 1972.
@Suprkit , but not nearly as impressive as the wins I already mentioned. Johnson was pretty much elected on the strength that people couldn't stand much more change since the Kennedy assassination. And Roosevelt -- well, that was impressive, but that was almost 80 years ago. Usually it is the Republicans who have the impressive wins in presidential elections. It's been a very very long time since Democrats have had the same impressive wins, on the same scale.
@chrisman737 Impressive is impressive no matter how long ago it was. Again, the President's was an impressive win, seeing as no Democrat has won over 50% Johnson.
and let the corporate take over of democracy begin. ronald reagan, the architect of deficit spending, military imperialism, the end of individual savings, out sourcing, corporate give aways, deregulation, privatization of the public domain, 2 and 3 incomes to keep up, americans up to their neck in credit card debt, wage stagnation, and debt and income inequality on scale with the gilded age of robber barons and sweat shops.
reaganism is slowly destroying the american dream.
@tomitstube ~ if six of the walmart family owns more than 1/3 the american population, and 400 oligarchs own more than half the american population... if that's the reaganomics you want, well then congratulations, your hero reagan and bush have created a third world america.
when the next crash hits, you gonna bail out the banks again or just let the whole goddamn thing go? it's coming trickle down lover, tick, tock, tick, tock...
Look at frame 0:42. It only covered half the country including Texas. Reagan had 270 electoral votes while Jimmuh Carter had 15 & 3 of those were from the reliably Democrat voters in Washington DC. This was a great night in America.
Don't forget inflation and high interest rates.These had a lot to do with it,along with high unemployment. it was called stagflation and they combined them to make the misery index.The Iranian hostage crisis made Carter look weak on foriegn policy.There was also the energy crisis.Reagan almost beat Ford out of the 1976 Republican nomination.
Reagan even won Massachusetts. Now that tells you how much of a blowout this was. reagan is the last Republican to win Massachusetts. He also won Mass. in 1984.
Imagine, earlier in March of 1980 Reagan was trailing Carter by 25 percentage points! 5 weeks before the election Reagan and Carter were tied at 39% each. they said he was unelectable. Good reason not to listen to the establishment hacks who say certain candidates are "unelectable" in this next election.
@CoolBlue71 Like i said, in MARCH, 1980, Reagan was 25 points behind Carter. In mid-SEPTEMBER, 5 weeks before the election, Reagan and Carter were deadlocked at 39% each. the sources are two national polls (one in March and one in Sept.) done by Time.
@Texfield91 They must have been piss-poor pollings. (He unseated Gerald Ford in 1976 by a national margin of 2.06%.) A 25-point margin of victory for a two-party duopoly hasn't happened. (Close calls to that level, though, such as with Lyndon Johnson, in 1964, and Richard Nixon, in 1972.) That would be either 61%-36% or 62%-37%. Unrealistic. Did people take that seriously? Especially since Jimmy Carter was in the 30s% (job-approval percentile range) for a good amount of 1979 leading into 1980.
@Texfield91 EXCELLENT POINT!!! I see many parallels from the 1980 election to this years republican primaries. Is it possible Newt could be the 2nd coming of Reagan? It all rings familiar to me.
@ironcitydevildog the guy who cut and run from lebanon? who raised taxes over a dozen times? who gave amnesty to illegal immigrants? who gave us record deficits? who negotiated with terrorists in the Iran-Contra scandal? THAT ronald reagan?
@jerzy862 Oh go blow Obama socialist. What they fuck has anyone done here lately. THEY ALL RAISE TAXES!!!! How much has Obama spent in the last 3 years??? Way more than Reagan even dreamed of. Sounds like you are talking about Obama to me not Reagan.
@ironcitydevildog What did I say that wasn't true? Every one of my assertions is covered in any standard history book. We aren't talking about Obama right now, we are discussing Reagan. I am only curious as to why conservatives worship this man so much. It is a fact that he did every single thing that I mentioned. Im wondering if you actually knew about these things, or choose to ignore them or what?
If you actually look at his record I dont see how he can truly represent conservative values.
@jerzy862 #1 the Democratic house and congress he had in place screwed him with the taxes being raised, just like they did Bush Sr. #2 The Iran Contra deal was done to save American lives and American Marines, that is why Olly North is still revered in the Corps!!! He defeated the Soviet Threat. He united America. He had leadership that saved this country. That is why we like him, I only worship Jesus Christ, and Reagan believed in the Constitution. These new liberals only want power/socialism.
@ironcitydevildog Notwithstanding the fact that he could have vetoed those tax raises, which he didnt, "saving american lives" isnt an excuse for negotiating with terrorists. Ollie North armed Nicaraguan Contra deathsquads; hardly someone worth revering You also didnt address the FACT that he cut and run from Lebanon, and gave amnesty (he actually used that word) to illegal immigrants.
@jerzy862 He actually vetoed more than a few of them. Every President has raised taxes, so I'm not gonna just point the finger at Reagan. He also used that money to turn our military into a fortress, which in turn completely destroyed the Soviet Union without ever firing a shot. He was a millionaire like all the others and refused his retirement, and when he heard it couldn't be put back into SSI, he then gave it to charity. Lets see Obummer do that, or build our military. more welfare!!!
@ironcitydevildog You gotta be kidding? Regan was the catalyst that put us on the slow decline into the shitty economy we have right now with his "trickle down" bullshit. Besides Nixon, Regan was prob the worst president of the modern era.
@zazozung Actually I'm poor and don't kiss ass to the union I work for and drink the liberal media kool aid about how the Dems are for the working man. They just take our dues and we get fucked!!! Quit acting like a sheep moron!!!! RON PAUL 2012!!!!!
@ironcitydevildog yeah no sorry what did he do i know he did not end the cold war so what you know that is disrespect to Washington or Jefferson or even Madison and Bill HOW HOW ABOUT FDR just got us out of the great deprshion and out of ww2 AND SEARVED FOR 4 trems is that good.
So your saying that this President is worse than all his predecessors before him? I understand..You don't like him but just because you don't doesn't mean he's "The Worst President this Country has ever had". If you had any sense of history you might put the Worst label on just one man. In my opinion, the worst Presidents were the last five before Lincoln. Those men did nothing as the Country edged closer to Civil War.
@TheFrogger15 This president is worse than Carter. No president has been re-elected at this unemployment rate and at this disapproval. By the time November next year comes around, most people will be saying anyone but Obama. People may say Bush was the reason we got a bad president such as Obama; but we're going back to Republican because Obama is far worse in the history of all presidents of the United States.
@DMHagwood you'd be surprised at the number of people who still think Bush and Bush alone caused the recession and housing market crisis. Those people will still support Obummer in 2012 even if unemployment were over 10%.
Regan was meh. Some things we did well others like messing up the tax code which ruined the middle class and amnesty for 6 million illegals. Yet if he did that today the repub party would tear him to shreds
@ruffzspree The amnesty had two parts to it. One part was the amnesty but the other part were laws to prevent the illegal immigration problem from happening again. They gave out the amnesty and didn't enforce the laws that were supposed to prevent it.
This is the reason most republicans today are against so called "comprehensive" reform. We know what happened last time. They'll just hand out the amnesty and not enforce the laws again.
@BillyBlues34 Obama, worse than Carter? LOL!!!! Son, nothing stacks as the worst thing in presidency than George Bush Junior, and the sad part about him is that he was a two-term bonehead. Don't forget who left us in the economic disaster, son!
should never project before western states can finish voting... except for Alaska and Hawaii... I belive they have changed that policy.. Yes, a great night..
Someone...quick...hop in a DeLorean and come back with Reagan. We need him now more than ever. Oblamer wouldn't withstand 10 minutes in a debate with the likes of Reagan.
That man had more in common with the Founding Fathers than any president of the 20th century.
Carter had no f'n chance in hell. Double digit interest rates, Iran contra, energy crisis, and the recession. Carter was a joke. I can't believe my mom voted for Carter in this 1980.
@goldenthroat86 i know. My mistake. I realized that after i made the comment and never corrected it. What i meant to say was the Iran hostage crisis when referring to Carter.
@msmithstud Yes about the double-digit interest rates, energy crisis, and recession (actually, "stagflation"--double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation at the same time). The Iran-Contra scandal was Reagan's problem, 7 years later. The Iranian and Nicaraguan revolutions, which happened in 1979, did affect Carter's electability, however, the former mainly because of the hostage crisis, and the latter because it allowed hard-core cold warriers to paint Carter as "soft" on communism.
@msmithstud Iran–Contra took place in 1985 a scandal in the REAGAN administration.
Blaming Jimmy Carter for the energy crisis is stupid. It happened because of the Iranian Revolution driving up the price of oil. Also, the Carter Recession (with 7.8% unemployment peak in July 1980) wasn't nearly as bad the Reagan Recession (with 10.8% unemployment peak in November 1982)
@Willjk89 i mistakenly said 'the iran contra' instead of 'the iran hostage crisis' when referring to Carter. Since Carter was president during 77-80, typically he would be blamed for its problems. Just as its unfair for people to blame Bush and Bush alone for the collapse of the economy in 2008 which was brought on due to the collapse of the housing market. I tell those people 'Bush didn't make it mandatory for banks to offer mortgages to homeowners who had no business buying homes.'
Tom Brokaw: "I dont think anyone anticipated that it would eventually become a floodgate of one kind or another, where the votes would just flood in for Ronald Reagan".
Least of all you Tom. We know who you voted for. idiot liberal.
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Looking at that map likely made Carter loose his bowels. What an embarrassing and overwhelming rejection of Mr. Carter. To top it off, Carter cost the Dems control of the Senate for the first time in 26 years and a huge loss of House seats. Served that pious prick right. He continues to resent America for kicking him and his wife out of the White House on their arrogant asses. Remember, Jimmy relished the thought of running against that "extremist war-monger that he would surely beat." HA!
@KCTKOC im pretty sure it was time magazine that made the switch because red made democrats look "communistic." It did it in 1980 but the switch came in 1984. But im not completely sure.
Wow. talk about the sign of the times. They actually said "We are coloring in Blue, light Grey if you are watching in Black and White". Can you believe this was only 31 years ago and people still had B&W TV's?
@NuJoiseyMAN Actually, Minnesota was close enough that the Reagan campaign could have asked for a recount, but they felt that would be running up the score.
my reaction to that night[boath hands on head while looking up at the roof] NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@ScooterpupReljac Yup. The only one who comes closest to him right now, isn't running. But he says he'll make up his mind next may, if the circumstances call for it. Obama needs to be defeated, and the sad thing is the person we need is not with the Republicans. We need an independent in the White House.
@ScooterpupReljac being someone who felt so strongly back then about regan I am curious ur feelings on the upcoming election. that is are you for re-electing obama? Or would you like to see a republican win & who nominated?
@hoosierlooker Blame Ted Turner and CNN who I think switched the colors up in 1984 but technically NBC did have the Colors right, Centre-Right Parties use Blue and Left Parties use Red so maybe Ted Turner was being freakish
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Ahh.. Rand worshipers. Worshiping an avowed Atheist woman who created a philosophy around the mind of a sociopath who kidnapped and chopped a 12 year old girl to pieces for profit.
It's going to be 1980 all over again when Obama gets stomped just like Carter did. Perry or Romney either one, which ever wins will make an awesome president and deliver us from this mess we have endured for 3 and a half years. Baraack and Michele and(grandma), pack your shit.
@glenda8110 And then Perry or Romney, when elected, will add another $8-10 trillion to the national debt in 4 years, crash the economy, and the people on the right will yet again say squat about the deficit spending.
@UrielDagda That sounds better than what's going to happen after another 4 years of Obama. Obma is going to go to his grave saying " It's not my fault I was an ineffective, lousy president". It's George Bush's fault, It's Geore Bushes fault, It's ------------
@glenda8110 And of course, under Bush we never had a terrorist attack, and the economy was always the healthiest it could be.. Nah, can't be Bush's fault, everything ran so well under him. This all started the day Obama took office, and he's unilaterally been turning the US into a Socialist country, where there is a threat that the God-Wealthy might pay as much taxes as during the Commie Clinton years...
@UrielDagda I never heard Bush blame Clinton for AlQaida, even though BinLaden came into being during Clinton's administration while he was getting blow jobs in the oval office. Bush just took action and protected our country both here and abroad. He brought down the Hussein family, preventing a safe haven for terriorism there. Obama could have never handled such a trying presidency-- hell he can't handle this presidency. Sorry Barry, wars cost money, but you stood in line for the check.
@glenda8110 Good try, but the Clinton administration did warn the incoming Bush administration about bin Laden. Plus Al Qaeda was created in 1988 during the presidency of Ronald Reagan-- who supported the Taliban and held them up as the equivalent to the Founding Fathers in Afghanistan, then when the USSR collapsed financially, ending the war. Bin Laden had been trying to blow up the World Trade Center since the beginning of the elder Bush's presidency.
@UrielDagda Well you can just go back forever, and look into every presidency and find something that was left for you, but at some point, you have to quit blaming the last guy and do the job you were elected for. Obama has got to learn how to play nice and go along with the game instead of being so controversial. The good old boys will never play ball with him with his uber-liberal views. That share the wealth commment early on killed him. Big whig politicians want him gone at any cost.
@glenda8110 And how was Obama controversial? He didn't just become a total and complete 100% bobblehead for Republicans? And what's uber-liberal, I mean, according to what's considered liberal, socialist, communist now, the United States was a commie nation up until Bush was elected. Anything left of corporate fascism is ultra-left.
Sorry, I'm not going to suck corporate schlong on demand. That's not freedom.
@UrielDagda You make good points, I dont think any of the politicians stand for any thing except how miuch money and power they can attain with the least work and responsibility. That's why we need term limits, no one should be in office any longer than 4 years, drop the super-expensive salaries and pensions down to real world levels. These people, after they complete their term can go back to the private sector and live with the decisions they made for us and themselves, right now, they don't
@glenda8110 Lmao! funny how you were trying to blame Clinton ""For his lack of intervention with Al-Qaida"" then after this Uriel schooled you with the facts, you come back with awww i mean, dont blame the last guy lmao
@UrielDagda But Clinton ALSO let Osama go when he had the chance (on MULTIPLE occasions) to take him into custody. How was Obama controversial??? Are you daft? Destroying our healthcare system, FORCING the closing of auto dealerships and STEALING money from Chrysler Bondholders in order to pay of his Union thug cronies was pretty controversial. And if you don't like corporatism, how in the hell can you support Obama and hate the Tea Party?
@ToddAldrich The main reason why Clinton couldnt touch sama at those times was becuase the CIA and FBI didnt even considered Osama guilty for all his acts of terrorism, and if anything, Clinton was the closest any president has been to catching Osama,( Well except Obama) lmao
Forcing the closing, ohh yeah because they were doing all to well, yeah it was Obama who made all these dealerships close, your right, dont blame the economic crisis (Which was created from extremely goverment unregulation
As a condition of the bailout - the administration required that the Auto Companies revoke the licenses of their dealerships. That is simply a FACT.
In addition, you show an INCREDIBLE amount of ignorance when you say the crisis was created from "extremely government unregulation ". Governement regulation INCREASED and DRAMATICALLY so, during the Bush years. THAT was PART of the problem, not de-regulation.
@dcsandman1 We KNEW he was guilty and he was offered up on a silver platter by the government of Sudan. All Clinton had to say was "Yes" and we would have had Bin Laden in our custody.
@dcsandman1 Here is PROOF that the Obama administration forced the dealerships to close. It was NOT the economy. Many of these dealerships were PROFITABLE.
@UrielDagda nobody has added so much debt in so little time as your hero, Barack Obama. he walked into office with a 5.8% unemployment rate and now its 9.2%, and has devalued our dollar to pretty much nill; but go ahead, vote for insanity again in 2012, because stimulus and socialism is going to work this time around! unbelievable
@Texfield91 Oh yeah, I forgot, Bush left us with one of the biggest boom economies in American history. And the private sector hasn't in the last few years been making record profits and squirreling it away instead of hiring people. And we all know that it's the President's job, and his job only, to create jobs while eliminating all federal spending (except defense, that must increase at twice the rate of inflation!).
And that Obama, passing laws without a single Republican seeing the bills.
nothing pleases me more than watching these 2 big lib assholes squirming around in their seats like they have hemmroids while announcing Reagan is the winner. They look so shocked and confused as to why Reagan won.
It was indeed a great night for America. May we see the same result this November; i.e., a conservative Republican unseating a failed, liberal, statist, Democratic President. Please God.....
dmreeoogdaq 2 days ago
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Interesting historical note that back then the red versus blue states were different. What they called the blue states are now the red states. Perhaps back then the blue states represented what were incumbents versus the opposition rather than at it is now by party line.
zenistic 1 week ago
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zenistic 1 week ago
How I miss those days...
veronicanbetty69 1 week ago
Reagan used to lull me to sleep during his addresses with promises of strength & a chance at a decent future, it came true.
Now Obama bullshits my kids and tells them to be ashamed of their nation, fuck him.
Klaus1386 1 week ago
@Klaus1386 really!?
cottonrun1 1 week ago
@cottonrun1 Whatever you say grunter.
Klaus1386 1 week ago
@Klaus1386 great post !!!!!!!!!! totally agree
luzzgn8a 1 week ago
3 hours later both of these guys were drunk as skunks and in tears.
armandx10 1 week ago
You can see the sad face on John Chancellor's face.
geoashcrh 2 weeks ago
*NOTICE: Republican states were always BLUE, Democrat RED. The connection between Socialism-Communism (red) and the Dem. party was something the media wanted to down-play, the shift was made in the 1988 election maps on networks.
UlfenDaddy 2 weeks ago 2
I hope obama loses this bad.
sfjohn0123 3 weeks ago 4
The greatest day in the last 30 years
spm1021 4 weeks ago 2
@spm1021 The day America began its slow economic death?
EmperorofCartoons 2 weeks ago
"We will be coloring in those in the map now in blue for Reagan or light gray for black and white..."
Soxogram 1 month ago
@Soxogram and also interesting is that Blue (or light gray for black & White TV at 0:52 ) was used to depict a Republican state. I looked it up and the whole Red state Vs. Blue state thing wasn't used to depict party sides until around 2000.
level2789 3 weeks ago
LETS HOPE THIS HAPPENS FOR RON PAUL
HAIRLANDSECURITY 1 month ago
It was once morning in America.
rodeocyclone 1 month ago
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Suprkit 1 month ago
Republican Red and Democrat Blue wouldn't be the case until some years later. The use of color for the winner in each state was John Chancellor's idea. From the same NBC that had "red" and "blue" radio networks up until World War II.
Mcnzlea 1 month ago
Shouldn't the colors be switched, Red for Republican, Blue for Democrat.
Diarkia124 1 month ago
People talk about how impressive Obama's win was in 2008, but it was nothing compared to Reagan's win in 1980, or Reagan's win in 1984, or Nixon's win in 1972.
chrisman737 1 month ago
@chrisman737 Or Johnson's win in 1964,or Roosevelt's in 1932/1936,
Suprkit 1 month ago
@Suprkit , but not nearly as impressive as the wins I already mentioned. Johnson was pretty much elected on the strength that people couldn't stand much more change since the Kennedy assassination. And Roosevelt -- well, that was impressive, but that was almost 80 years ago. Usually it is the Republicans who have the impressive wins in presidential elections. It's been a very very long time since Democrats have had the same impressive wins, on the same scale.
chrisman737 1 month ago
@chrisman737 Impressive is impressive no matter how long ago it was. Again, the President's was an impressive win, seeing as no Democrat has won over 50% Johnson.
Suprkit 1 month ago
IF ONLY WE HAD REAGAN ONCE AGAIN.
adc931 1 month ago
Wow what an ass kicking.
wndebu 1 month ago
A time when California, New York, Mass had commonsense...
the430movie 1 month ago
and let the corporate take over of democracy begin. ronald reagan, the architect of deficit spending, military imperialism, the end of individual savings, out sourcing, corporate give aways, deregulation, privatization of the public domain, 2 and 3 incomes to keep up, americans up to their neck in credit card debt, wage stagnation, and debt and income inequality on scale with the gilded age of robber barons and sweat shops.
reaganism is slowly destroying the american dream.
tomitstube 1 month ago
@tomitstube You mean reaganism is destroying the "socialist dream". Thank god for that right?
natazer 1 month ago
@tomitstube ~ if six of the walmart family owns more than 1/3 the american population, and 400 oligarchs own more than half the american population... if that's the reaganomics you want, well then congratulations, your hero reagan and bush have created a third world america.
when the next crash hits, you gonna bail out the banks again or just let the whole goddamn thing go? it's coming trickle down lover, tick, tock, tick, tock...
tomitstube 1 month ago
Look at frame 0:42. It only covered half the country including Texas. Reagan had 270 electoral votes while Jimmuh Carter had 15 & 3 of those were from the reliably Democrat voters in Washington DC. This was a great night in America.
WilliamDRowlett 1 month ago
Don't forget inflation and high interest rates.These had a lot to do with it,along with high unemployment. it was called stagflation and they combined them to make the misery index.The Iranian hostage crisis made Carter look weak on foriegn policy.There was also the energy crisis.Reagan almost beat Ford out of the 1976 Republican nomination.
GGE47 1 month ago
@GGE47 If today's youth had lived a few days during these times, Obama would NEVER have been president! Obama would have lost all 57 states!
the430movie 1 month ago
Who the hell drew that map? Wisconsin looks lopsided!
MrConservative608 2 months ago
Carter still cannot accept this defeat.
GIONELLIO 2 months ago
@GIONELLIO Carter has said he will spend the rest of his life "apologizing for losing to Ronald Reagan." Jimmy, STOP APOLOGIZING!
vccstudents 2 months ago
Reagan even won Massachusetts. Now that tells you how much of a blowout this was. reagan is the last Republican to win Massachusetts. He also won Mass. in 1984.
Truth77Absolute 2 months ago
@Truth77Absolute Reagan carried Massachusetts twice, the only Republican Presidential candidate to have done so even once since Eisenhower.
altfactor 2 months ago
@altfactor , yes, I am aware of this. I so wish that all of America can turn to a candidate that is Reaganlike at this time. We desprately need this.
Truth77Absolute 2 months ago
@altfactor , I' m from Massachusetts, I feel like a an American living in the former Soviet Union.
Truth77Absolute 2 months ago
Imagine, earlier in March of 1980 Reagan was trailing Carter by 25 percentage points! 5 weeks before the election Reagan and Carter were tied at 39% each. they said he was unelectable. Good reason not to listen to the establishment hacks who say certain candidates are "unelectable" in this next election.
Texfield91 2 months ago 21
@Texfield91 Do you have a source for "Reagan was trailing Carter by 25 percentage points!" 5 weeks before the election"?
CoolBlue71 2 months ago
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Texfield91 2 months ago
@CoolBlue71 Like i said, in MARCH, 1980, Reagan was 25 points behind Carter. In mid-SEPTEMBER, 5 weeks before the election, Reagan and Carter were deadlocked at 39% each. the sources are two national polls (one in March and one in Sept.) done by Time.
Texfield91 2 months ago
@Texfield91 They must have been piss-poor pollings. (He unseated Gerald Ford in 1976 by a national margin of 2.06%.) A 25-point margin of victory for a two-party duopoly hasn't happened. (Close calls to that level, though, such as with Lyndon Johnson, in 1964, and Richard Nixon, in 1972.) That would be either 61%-36% or 62%-37%. Unrealistic. Did people take that seriously? Especially since Jimmy Carter was in the 30s% (job-approval percentile range) for a good amount of 1979 leading into 1980.
CoolBlue71 2 months ago
@Texfield91 Ron Paul 2012!
somebody331000 1 week ago
@Texfield91 EXCELLENT POINT!!! I see many parallels from the 1980 election to this years republican primaries. Is it possible Newt could be the 2nd coming of Reagan? It all rings familiar to me.
lovetheheard 1 week ago
@lovetheheard Exactly! I see them too, and who knows? Gingrich might be just what you said. We'll have to wait and see.
Texfield91 1 week ago
Haha those states are so poorly drawn. Look at virginia, it looks nothing like that. But yeah, Reagan won this in an all time blowout.
PIAF22 2 months ago
GOD HOW I MISS ROCKIN RONALD REAGAN!!!!! THE GREATEST OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS!!!!!!
ironcitydevildog 2 months ago 29
@ironcitydevildog the guy who cut and run from lebanon? who raised taxes over a dozen times? who gave amnesty to illegal immigrants? who gave us record deficits? who negotiated with terrorists in the Iran-Contra scandal? THAT ronald reagan?
jerzy862 2 months ago
@jerzy862 Oh go blow Obama socialist. What they fuck has anyone done here lately. THEY ALL RAISE TAXES!!!! How much has Obama spent in the last 3 years??? Way more than Reagan even dreamed of. Sounds like you are talking about Obama to me not Reagan.
ironcitydevildog 2 months ago
@ironcitydevildog What did I say that wasn't true? Every one of my assertions is covered in any standard history book. We aren't talking about Obama right now, we are discussing Reagan. I am only curious as to why conservatives worship this man so much. It is a fact that he did every single thing that I mentioned. Im wondering if you actually knew about these things, or choose to ignore them or what?
If you actually look at his record I dont see how he can truly represent conservative values.
jerzy862 2 months ago
@jerzy862 #1 the Democratic house and congress he had in place screwed him with the taxes being raised, just like they did Bush Sr. #2 The Iran Contra deal was done to save American lives and American Marines, that is why Olly North is still revered in the Corps!!! He defeated the Soviet Threat. He united America. He had leadership that saved this country. That is why we like him, I only worship Jesus Christ, and Reagan believed in the Constitution. These new liberals only want power/socialism.
ironcitydevildog 2 months ago
@ironcitydevildog Notwithstanding the fact that he could have vetoed those tax raises, which he didnt, "saving american lives" isnt an excuse for negotiating with terrorists. Ollie North armed Nicaraguan Contra deathsquads; hardly someone worth revering You also didnt address the FACT that he cut and run from Lebanon, and gave amnesty (he actually used that word) to illegal immigrants.
jerzy862 2 months ago
@jerzy862 He actually vetoed more than a few of them. Every President has raised taxes, so I'm not gonna just point the finger at Reagan. He also used that money to turn our military into a fortress, which in turn completely destroyed the Soviet Union without ever firing a shot. He was a millionaire like all the others and refused his retirement, and when he heard it couldn't be put back into SSI, he then gave it to charity. Lets see Obummer do that, or build our military. more welfare!!!
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@ironcitydevildog how
MichaelWilkinson9515 1 month ago
@ironcitydevildog You gotta be kidding? Regan was the catalyst that put us on the slow decline into the shitty economy we have right now with his "trickle down" bullshit. Besides Nixon, Regan was prob the worst president of the modern era.
EmperorofCartoons 2 weeks ago
@EmperorofCartoons No, that would make him the third worst. The second was Nixon, the worst ever was Bush Jr.
AnthonyJPiccione 2 weeks ago
@EmperorofCartoons No I'm sure the democrats and Bill Clinton stopped that huh!!!! SHEEP!!!!
ironcitydevildog 2 weeks ago
@ironcitydevildog You must have millions of dollars.
zazozung 1 week ago
@zazozung i love how people think there are no Rich Democrates. please, do some research will ya !!!!
luzzgn8a 1 week ago
@zazozung Actually I'm poor and don't kiss ass to the union I work for and drink the liberal media kool aid about how the Dems are for the working man. They just take our dues and we get fucked!!! Quit acting like a sheep moron!!!! RON PAUL 2012!!!!!
ironcitydevildog 6 days ago
@ironcitydevildog yeah no sorry what did he do i know he did not end the cold war so what you know that is disrespect to Washington or Jefferson or even Madison and Bill HOW HOW ABOUT FDR just got us out of the great deprshion and out of ww2 AND SEARVED FOR 4 trems is that good.
MichaelWilkinson9515 1 day ago
Playing risk ?
kld0093 2 months ago
One of the darker days for the U.S.
cutis1000 2 months ago
Miss Reagan. Nobama 2012.
NWsubmom 2 months ago 2
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"Miss Reagan. Nobama 2012."
I see you never taken a logic course.
Nice ambiguity calling Reagan a woman. Was your plan to insult two presidents of the USA in one comment?
GuardianoftheSource 2 months ago
I love how they mention "light grey" for black & white TVs!
bromidedrag 2 months ago
Good lord, did a second grader draw this map?
blazefootball91 2 months ago
Only the media didn't expect a flood gate for Reagan. They still haven't learned.
gdbalck 2 months ago
weed need another regan again. get rid of this stupid ass obama please
littlemissdeidre 3 months ago
The happiest day in my life as well.
AlvarezGalloso 3 months ago
So your saying that this President is worse than all his predecessors before him? I understand..You don't like him but just because you don't doesn't mean he's "The Worst President this Country has ever had". If you had any sense of history you might put the Worst label on just one man. In my opinion, the worst Presidents were the last five before Lincoln. Those men did nothing as the Country edged closer to Civil War.
TheFrogger15 3 months ago
This will be like Obama vs GOP candidate. Obama will be a one-term president because many of our people have been seeing through his BS.
DMHagwood 3 months ago
@DMHagwood Sorry...But you have no Reagan in this field of Boozs. The President will be re-elected.
TheFrogger15 3 months ago
@TheFrogger15 This president is worse than Carter. No president has been re-elected at this unemployment rate and at this disapproval. By the time November next year comes around, most people will be saying anyone but Obama. People may say Bush was the reason we got a bad president such as Obama; but we're going back to Republican because Obama is far worse in the history of all presidents of the United States.
DMHagwood 3 months ago
@DMHagwood you'd be surprised at the number of people who still think Bush and Bush alone caused the recession and housing market crisis. Those people will still support Obummer in 2012 even if unemployment were over 10%.
msmithstud 3 months ago
early Tom !!!
nhl07guy 3 months ago
Regan was meh. Some things we did well others like messing up the tax code which ruined the middle class and amnesty for 6 million illegals. Yet if he did that today the repub party would tear him to shreds
ruffzspree 3 months ago
@ruffzspree The amnesty had two parts to it. One part was the amnesty but the other part were laws to prevent the illegal immigration problem from happening again. They gave out the amnesty and didn't enforce the laws that were supposed to prevent it.
This is the reason most republicans today are against so called "comprehensive" reform. We know what happened last time. They'll just hand out the amnesty and not enforce the laws again.
Swanzo 3 months ago
@jennaful about the only state carter won
richmjr67 3 months ago
Why was Georgia red?
Jennafu832 3 months ago
Obama is much worse than Carter.
BillyBlues34 3 months ago
@BillyBlues34 Obama, worse than Carter? LOL!!!! Son, nothing stacks as the worst thing in presidency than George Bush Junior, and the sad part about him is that he was a two-term bonehead. Don't forget who left us in the economic disaster, son!
jorgemartinez18 3 months ago
@BillyBlues34 Hell, obama's worse than Hitler.
2014cwajts71 3 months ago
Myth: Jimmy Carter was an ineffective liberal.
Fact: He was the most conservative Democratic President in the 20th century.
I'm not saying conservatism doesn't work, I'm saying it works when done right!
withalittlehelpfrom3 3 months ago
NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (message from the future)
1awareness 3 months ago
LOL.....THEY WERE PRACTICALLY IN TEARS BECAUSE THEY HAD TO CALL THE ELECTION FOR REAGAN!!!!
dac70466 3 months ago
WTF happen to vermont? so much for been a liberal state.
joshu21 3 months ago
should never project before western states can finish voting... except for Alaska and Hawaii... I belive they have changed that policy.. Yes, a great night..
irish89055 3 months ago
Someone...quick...hop in a DeLorean and come back with Reagan. We need him now more than ever. Oblamer wouldn't withstand 10 minutes in a debate with the likes of Reagan.
That man had more in common with the Founding Fathers than any president of the 20th century.
drewnwalker 4 months ago
This is a lot better than the holograms and idiotic crap they have now heh
WHOOPASSLQ 4 months ago 5
haha not even close
unclepic1 4 months ago
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elo333333333 4 months ago
Huh, Blue for Republican. Interesting.
dougmoerhoffman 4 months ago
Carter had no f'n chance in hell. Double digit interest rates, Iran contra, energy crisis, and the recession. Carter was a joke. I can't believe my mom voted for Carter in this 1980.
msmithstud 4 months ago 16
@msmithstud Carter was in be with the Communists....on wait the Democrats
gopconservative78 4 months ago
@msmithstud Iran contra was Reagan chief.
philberz 3 months ago
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msmithstud 3 months ago
@philberz my mistake. I was referring to the hostages that were released once he took office.
msmithstud 3 months ago
@msmithstud Ignore my other comment--I hadn't seen your disclaimer :)
Seasass 2 months ago
@msmithstud no offense to my favorite president (ronald reagan) but he (Ronald Reagan) was president during iran contra
3dofanatic 3 months ago
@3dofanatic yeah my mistake. Thanks for the correction. I was referring to the the hostages in Iran.
msmithstud 3 months ago
@msmithstud Iran contra was in 1985-86 during Reagan's second administration. Carter had nothing to do with it.
goldenthroat86 2 months ago
@goldenthroat86 i know. My mistake. I realized that after i made the comment and never corrected it. What i meant to say was the Iran hostage crisis when referring to Carter.
msmithstud 2 months ago
@msmithstud Yes about the double-digit interest rates, energy crisis, and recession (actually, "stagflation"--double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation at the same time). The Iran-Contra scandal was Reagan's problem, 7 years later. The Iranian and Nicaraguan revolutions, which happened in 1979, did affect Carter's electability, however, the former mainly because of the hostage crisis, and the latter because it allowed hard-core cold warriers to paint Carter as "soft" on communism.
Seasass 2 months ago
@msmithstud Carter still is a joke.
fennie2578 2 months ago
@msmithstud Your mom is/was a smart lady.
typhonsentra 2 months ago
@msmithstud Iran–Contra took place in 1985 a scandal in the REAGAN administration.
Blaming Jimmy Carter for the energy crisis is stupid. It happened because of the Iranian Revolution driving up the price of oil. Also, the Carter Recession (with 7.8% unemployment peak in July 1980) wasn't nearly as bad the Reagan Recession (with 10.8% unemployment peak in November 1982)
Willjk89 2 months ago
@Willjk89 i mistakenly said 'the iran contra' instead of 'the iran hostage crisis' when referring to Carter. Since Carter was president during 77-80, typically he would be blamed for its problems. Just as its unfair for people to blame Bush and Bush alone for the collapse of the economy in 2008 which was brought on due to the collapse of the housing market. I tell those people 'Bush didn't make it mandatory for banks to offer mortgages to homeowners who had no business buying homes.'
msmithstud 2 months ago
@msmithstud Yeah, but it was deregulation under the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations that allowed that in the first place.
Willjk89 2 months ago
Tom Brokaw: "I dont think anyone anticipated that it would eventually become a floodgate of one kind or another, where the votes would just flood in for Ronald Reagan".
Least of all you Tom. We know who you voted for. idiot liberal.
ObscurosLive 4 months ago 2
The color red suits the Democrat Party better. The networks should switch it back.
chippewaman1975 4 months ago
We'll have a similar outcome in 2012. Good times lie ahead America.
i90east 4 months ago 2
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zx42impeachbaldness 4 months ago
Looking at that map likely made Carter loose his bowels. What an embarrassing and overwhelming rejection of Mr. Carter. To top it off, Carter cost the Dems control of the Senate for the first time in 26 years and a huge loss of House seats. Served that pious prick right. He continues to resent America for kicking him and his wife out of the White House on their arrogant asses. Remember, Jimmy relished the thought of running against that "extremist war-monger that he would surely beat." HA!
redletter2008 4 months ago
When did they switch blue/red?
KCTKOC 4 months ago
@KCTKOC im pretty sure it was time magazine that made the switch because red made democrats look "communistic." It did it in 1980 but the switch came in 1984. But im not completely sure.
MarkTimchuk 4 months ago
-That was a great day for America and for the world !
peter455sd 4 months ago
Sad, very sad. I remember when Reagan was a joke. Now all the presidential candidates are jokes.
Jemmer1000 4 months ago
A bad night for America. The beginning of the end of the middle class.
Saebeck32 4 months ago
Wow. talk about the sign of the times. They actually said "We are coloring in Blue, light Grey if you are watching in Black and White". Can you believe this was only 31 years ago and people still had B&W TV's?
djwolf12 4 months ago
lol or light grey for black and white. it's so crazy how long ago 1980 was.
tharock220 4 months ago
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cainergreen 4 months ago
It's sad that Carter only got 6 states + DC then in 1984 Mondale only got 2 states....
alienbrothers 4 months ago
@alienbrothers - Mondale only received one state, Minnesota. And the District of Columbia
NuJoiseyMAN 4 months ago
@NuJoiseyMAN Actually, Minnesota was close enough that the Reagan campaign could have asked for a recount, but they felt that would be running up the score.
forexrobots212 4 months ago
@forexrobots212, I didn't know that.. interesting. Imagine how embarrassing it would've been for Mondale losing all 50 states.
NuJoiseyMAN 4 months ago
@alienbrothers it is.. Super Capitalism/Christian Conservatism has been growing in the 30 years since..
youpon1000 4 months ago
@youpon1000 Are you implying that Capitalism and Christianity are bad things?
alienbrothers 4 months ago
@alienbrothers no not exactly but the reganite polices and religious bigotry have become a problem
youpon1000 4 months ago
@youpon1000 Sorry, I'm too used to liberal athiests on Youtube it gets really annoying...
alienbrothers 4 months ago
....and the next day America's middle class would never be the same...
whitewitchoz 4 months ago
Why did the liberal media change GOP states blue to red? A message there libs?
2010metsfan 4 months ago
my reaction to that night[boath hands on head while looking up at the roof] NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
monkeybutler20 5 months ago 2
@monkeybutler20 Funny, I gave the exact same reaction in 2008.
conick9599 5 months ago
What a great president.
He may be dead but even dead he'd do a better job than Obama.
milliondollartruth 5 months ago 2
The state outlines are bad.
deedle6785 5 months ago
One of the happiest days and nights of my life.
ScooterpupReljac 5 months ago 35
@ScooterpupReljac Yup. The only one who comes closest to him right now, isn't running. But he says he'll make up his mind next may, if the circumstances call for it. Obama needs to be defeated, and the sad thing is the person we need is not with the Republicans. We need an independent in the White House.
TrunksXV 5 months ago
@ScooterpupReljac being someone who felt so strongly back then about regan I am curious ur feelings on the upcoming election. that is are you for re-electing obama? Or would you like to see a republican win & who nominated?
assman255 4 months ago
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ScooterpupReljac 4 months ago
Republicans were blue and Democrats in red back in 1980? When did the parties switch colors?
hoosierlooker 5 months ago
@hoosierlooker Blame Ted Turner and CNN who I think switched the colors up in 1984 but technically NBC did have the Colors right, Centre-Right Parties use Blue and Left Parties use Red so maybe Ted Turner was being freakish
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PattersonAndWhipson 5 months ago
Man, I love the Reagan electoral maps! He was amazing!
reaganremembered 5 months ago
Ahh.. Rand worshipers. Worshiping an avowed Atheist woman who created a philosophy around the mind of a sociopath who kidnapped and chopped a 12 year old girl to pieces for profit.
UrielDagda 5 months ago
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kidnapped and chopped a 12 year old girl to pieces for profit.
who did this?
BolnoyBratchny 5 months ago
@UrielDagda come on now! even Rand fells affended when you mention her next to these Military-Industrial Complexed Individuals lmao
dcsandman1 5 months ago
And to think, just a few months earlier he was considered by many, and his own party, to be unelectable.
Texfield91 5 months ago
It's going to be 1980 all over again when Obama gets stomped just like Carter did. Perry or Romney either one, which ever wins will make an awesome president and deliver us from this mess we have endured for 3 and a half years. Baraack and Michele and(grandma), pack your shit.
glenda8110 5 months ago
@glenda8110 And then Perry or Romney, when elected, will add another $8-10 trillion to the national debt in 4 years, crash the economy, and the people on the right will yet again say squat about the deficit spending.
UrielDagda 5 months ago
@UrielDagda That sounds better than what's going to happen after another 4 years of Obama. Obma is going to go to his grave saying " It's not my fault I was an ineffective, lousy president". It's George Bush's fault, It's Geore Bushes fault, It's ------------
glenda8110 5 months ago
@glenda8110 And of course, under Bush we never had a terrorist attack, and the economy was always the healthiest it could be.. Nah, can't be Bush's fault, everything ran so well under him. This all started the day Obama took office, and he's unilaterally been turning the US into a Socialist country, where there is a threat that the God-Wealthy might pay as much taxes as during the Commie Clinton years...
UrielDagda 5 months ago
@UrielDagda I never heard Bush blame Clinton for AlQaida, even though BinLaden came into being during Clinton's administration while he was getting blow jobs in the oval office. Bush just took action and protected our country both here and abroad. He brought down the Hussein family, preventing a safe haven for terriorism there. Obama could have never handled such a trying presidency-- hell he can't handle this presidency. Sorry Barry, wars cost money, but you stood in line for the check.
glenda8110 5 months ago
@glenda8110 Good try, but the Clinton administration did warn the incoming Bush administration about bin Laden. Plus Al Qaeda was created in 1988 during the presidency of Ronald Reagan-- who supported the Taliban and held them up as the equivalent to the Founding Fathers in Afghanistan, then when the USSR collapsed financially, ending the war. Bin Laden had been trying to blow up the World Trade Center since the beginning of the elder Bush's presidency.
UrielDagda 5 months ago
@UrielDagda Well you can just go back forever, and look into every presidency and find something that was left for you, but at some point, you have to quit blaming the last guy and do the job you were elected for. Obama has got to learn how to play nice and go along with the game instead of being so controversial. The good old boys will never play ball with him with his uber-liberal views. That share the wealth commment early on killed him. Big whig politicians want him gone at any cost.
glenda8110 5 months ago
@glenda8110 And how was Obama controversial? He didn't just become a total and complete 100% bobblehead for Republicans? And what's uber-liberal, I mean, according to what's considered liberal, socialist, communist now, the United States was a commie nation up until Bush was elected. Anything left of corporate fascism is ultra-left.
Sorry, I'm not going to suck corporate schlong on demand. That's not freedom.
UrielDagda 5 months ago
@UrielDagda You make good points, I dont think any of the politicians stand for any thing except how miuch money and power they can attain with the least work and responsibility. That's why we need term limits, no one should be in office any longer than 4 years, drop the super-expensive salaries and pensions down to real world levels. These people, after they complete their term can go back to the private sector and live with the decisions they made for us and themselves, right now, they don't
glenda8110 5 months ago
@glenda8110 Lmao! funny how you were trying to blame Clinton ""For his lack of intervention with Al-Qaida"" then after this Uriel schooled you with the facts, you come back with awww i mean, dont blame the last guy lmao
dcsandman1 5 months ago
@UrielDagda But Clinton ALSO let Osama go when he had the chance (on MULTIPLE occasions) to take him into custody. How was Obama controversial??? Are you daft? Destroying our healthcare system, FORCING the closing of auto dealerships and STEALING money from Chrysler Bondholders in order to pay of his Union thug cronies was pretty controversial. And if you don't like corporatism, how in the hell can you support Obama and hate the Tea Party?
ToddAldrich 5 months ago
@ToddAldrich The main reason why Clinton couldnt touch sama at those times was becuase the CIA and FBI didnt even considered Osama guilty for all his acts of terrorism, and if anything, Clinton was the closest any president has been to catching Osama,( Well except Obama) lmao
Forcing the closing, ohh yeah because they were doing all to well, yeah it was Obama who made all these dealerships close, your right, dont blame the economic crisis (Which was created from extremely goverment unregulation
dcsandman1 5 months ago
@dcsandman1 You are simply wrong.
As a condition of the bailout - the administration required that the Auto Companies revoke the licenses of their dealerships. That is simply a FACT.
In addition, you show an INCREDIBLE amount of ignorance when you say the crisis was created from "extremely government unregulation ". Governement regulation INCREASED and DRAMATICALLY so, during the Bush years. THAT was PART of the problem, not de-regulation.
ToddAldrich 5 months ago
@dcsandman1 We KNEW he was guilty and he was offered up on a silver platter by the government of Sudan. All Clinton had to say was "Yes" and we would have had Bin Laden in our custody.
ToddAldrich 5 months ago
@dcsandman1 Here is PROOF that the Obama administration forced the dealerships to close. It was NOT the economy. Many of these dealerships were PROFITABLE.
washingtonpostDOTcom/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/18/AR2010071802375.html
ToddAldrich 5 months ago
@dcsandman1 As for the LIE that Bush de-regulated industry - here is proof that you are simply spouting liberal lies.
The FACT of the matter is that the regulatory burden INCREASED by 70% under Bush.
mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/WP0836_RSP_The%20Incredible%20Growth%20of%20the%20Regulators%27%20Budget.pdf
archive.sba.gov/advo/research/rs264tot.pdf
ToddAldrich 5 months ago
@ToddAldrich which, by the way, that was extraordinarily lessoned by the Reagan Administration) for their demise
dcsandman1 5 months ago
@UrielDagda nobody has added so much debt in so little time as your hero, Barack Obama. he walked into office with a 5.8% unemployment rate and now its 9.2%, and has devalued our dollar to pretty much nill; but go ahead, vote for insanity again in 2012, because stimulus and socialism is going to work this time around! unbelievable
Texfield91 5 months ago
@Texfield91 Oh yeah, I forgot, Bush left us with one of the biggest boom economies in American history. And the private sector hasn't in the last few years been making record profits and squirreling it away instead of hiring people. And we all know that it's the President's job, and his job only, to create jobs while eliminating all federal spending (except defense, that must increase at twice the rate of inflation!).
And that Obama, passing laws without a single Republican seeing the bills.
UrielDagda 5 months ago
nothing pleases me more than watching these 2 big lib assholes squirming around in their seats like they have hemmroids while announcing Reagan is the winner. They look so shocked and confused as to why Reagan won.
djwolf12 5 months ago
Light gray if in black and white... Those were the days.
TheLoneCastaway 5 months ago