Obama is a pretty standard liberal, is he not? Comparing him to Reagan just seems silly.
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Obama is a pretty standard liberal, is he not? Comparing him to Reagan just seems silly.
Obama in 2008 cited Reagan as someone he looked up to for re-making politics away from the tired old liberalism (slight paraphrase, I don't have the exact quote), referring to tax-and-spend welfare and things like that.
I know that in hindsight he has become the villain to the left wing. However, he was an extremely popular president (easily winning solid blue states like California and New York against an incumbent Democrat, and holding them for the second election), the economy was in a very good shape, and to some degree played a role on the end of the Soviet Union.
The how bad Reagan was is a new thing. He was a popular president with a lot of bipartisan support.
Definitely a normal liberal, and only people on the fringes would consider them as politically similar.
I know that in hindsight he has become the villain to the left wing. However, he was an extremely popular president (gaining the home state of an "incumbent" Democrat, and universal media acclaim for his brave stances), the economy was in a very good shape, and he formed a worldwide coalition of the willing.
The how bad Bush was is a new thing. He was a popular president with a lot of bipartisan support.
He also lost the popular vote the first time (and barely won the electoral college) and then barely won the second time. And he was so unpopular, that Obama had such a comfortable victory against Bush’s successor, while after Reagan, Bush senior (who was his VP) quite comfortably won the elections.
It isn’t easy to find a more popular president than Reagan at his time.
Do better next time.
Just a few things
Protest against US involvement in El Salvador - https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/28/...arch-to-protest-us-policy-in-el-salvador.html
Aids protest in the 80's - https://www.npr.org/sections/health...ical-breakthrough-lessons-from-the-aids-fight
Something called the american punk scene - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...he-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-punk-rock
Reagan polling numbers while in office - https://news.gallup.com/poll/11887/ronald-reagan-from-peoples-perspective-gallup-poll-review.aspx
Americans like Reagan personally but popularity for his administration was all over the place.
It turns out the how good Reagan was is a new thing!
Anyways you might want to improve you're music collection.
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Not going to happen in a million years but Florida flipping blue just as Trump moves all his affairs there would be hilarious.
Disingenuous comparison. Bush was hated with a lot of intensity by core Dem base in his second term. Reegan definitely enjoyed support among well off white liberals. Not arguing Reegan was not a bad president but Revan's point about perception of his presidency changing seems valid.
it's pretty easy to see why there's so much confusion, american politicians have spent decades calling anyone to the left of mouslini the reincarnation of karl marx so there are a lot of people over there who think they're leftists because they like the blue team when they're more ideologically opposed to leftism than they are the red team
we're talking about the left not dems
out of 10 how easy was it?
yes but his first term was one of the most popular ever. you can argue that that was 9/11, but the people loved *his* response to it. same way one can argue that his second term was also marred by external events like katrina and the crash.
Katrina is year ~4.5 (mid 2005, with 0 = Jan 2001) , which is the first time he goes under zero consistently.
Can I use negative numbers ?
Its a concern for Trump, since losing FL would choke off most of his paths to victory.
He won 48 out of 50 states against an incumbent, got re-elected while carrying 49 states, and his VP became president while carrying 40 states and 426 electoral votes (Reagan got elected with 489 votes and re-elected with 525 votes, winning the election with +10 points and reelection with +18 points). For comparison, neither Clinton nor Obama (two popular presidents) didn’t manage to win more than 32 states, or to win by 10 points or to win 400 electoral votes). Reagan’s victories (or Bush’s senior victory) makes Clinton/Obama’s comfortable victories look like struggle.
So yes, he was an extremely popular president. Easily the most popular since FDR.
a significant number of us general elections were won in landslides, daddy reagan wasn't the only psychopath who ran the gambit, your grasp of history is really as poor as it is confident, as ss's 5 seconds on google shows
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/fl/florida_trump_vs_clinton-5635.html
clinton was also leading FL, and until election day
clinton was also leading FL, and until election day
No one won as comfortably as him, while as importantly, managing to ensure as a comfortable victory to his VP as him.
Legacy wise, it can be argued that he made GOP strong (winning the senate after such a ridiculous long time) which had a net negative effect considering what GOP has become. However, judging purely based on his time (and perception back then) he was both a good and extremely popular president.
Finally, having a rating on mid fifties at the end of the second presidency is quite good.
he's fourth in electoral votes/1. it took a number of seconds to google this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...dential_elections_by_Electoral_College_margin
as ss has already demonstrated, he's not first in popularity either, he's not first anywhere other than your desperate attempt to justify liking conservative politicians and their policies
do goalposts make a sound when they move?
(this is also not true, LBJ had won more easily than snr.)
another thing only conservatives will agree on
just stop it dude, just admit you were chatting shit we all do itIf there's one thing I've learnt it's the shorthand for my username isn't a particular good look.
Not gonna lie I was getting a little anxious reading Silva's past few posts
I can see the argument that Reagan was perceived as a good president. But in the context of humanity, he was a very bad president.
Similarly, the founding fathers are viewed favorably — religiously to some extent — by the majority, even though they owned slaves, thought black people were less than human, and their concept of all men being equal was confined to penis-carrying white men who owned property.
To be fair to Reagan, I did admire his ability to go to Berlin where he singlehandedly ended communism with a magic spell cast upon Gorbachev.
Similarly, the founding fathers are viewed favorably — religiously to some extent — by the majority, even though they owned slaves, thought black people were less than human, and their concept of all men being equal was confined to penis-carrying white men who owned property.
To be fair to Reagan, I did admire his ability to go to Berlin where he singlehandedly ended communism with a magic spell cast upon Gorbachev.
Bill Clinton polling guru pinpoints surprising states Biden can lock down to derail Trump’s re-election bid
What to watch
Rust Belt's traditional battlegrounds:
What to watch
Rust Belt's traditional battlegrounds:
- Trump’s chance of winning Michigan, which he carried by 11,000 votes in 2016, has been significantly reduced by the impact of COVID-19 in the state, which has suffered the fourth most deaths in the country.
- Pennsylvania has almost been as hard hit as Michigan (fifth most deaths).
- Of the three Rust Belt states, Trump is best positioned in Wisconsin, where his job approval has remained higher than the national average.
- Seven western states — California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington — are firmly in the Democratic column.
- Six states in the South and Southwest — Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia — are in various stages of becoming blue states.
- Outside of Virginia, which has already become a blue state, Arizona is the state most likely to transition to a Democratic base state as early as November.
- Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona: Biden wins all three states — his best option, given the political environment. (Map)
- Michigan and Pennsylvania + two congressional districts — Nebraska-02 and Maine-02. (Map)
- The Rust Belt: Biden wins Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. (Map)
- Michigan and the Sunbelt: Biden carries Michigan, Arizona and North Carolina. (Map)
- Florida +1: Biden carries Florida, getting him to 261 electoral votes. A win in any of the other battleground states would put him well past 270. (Map)
- Make putting Michigan out of reach for Trump the top priority.
- Lock up Pennsylvania.
- Prioritize winning Arizona, Maine-02 and Nebraska-02.
- Focus remaining resources on Wisconsin, North Carolina and Florida.
Warning signs are there for Biden. If they dont start paying attention to these issues now then they can kiss goodbye to winning states like Florida and Arizona.
Dems not taking the Latino vote seriously is what cost them big time in the Florida statewide races in 2018.
Below is an article by Politico a few months before the 2018 midterms and the Dems ignored the warning signs back then, which contributed to them losing the senate & governor races.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/14/nelson-florida-senate-latinos-rick-scott-645594
Dems not taking the Latino vote seriously is what cost them big time in the Florida statewide races in 2018.
Below is an article by Politico a few months before the 2018 midterms and the Dems ignored the warning signs back then, which contributed to them losing the senate & governor races.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/14/nelson-florida-senate-latinos-rick-scott-645594
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The notion that Biden should reach out to Castro is laughable. He's irrelevant in American politics, even among hispanics.
the democrats should withdraw biden and instead nominate a policy wonk with sex appeal
I’m not sure everyone is into Warren as much as me though.
I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
Swing state Republicans sound alarm about Trump’s campaign strategy — and warn he must get pandemic right
I don't think the sentiment is wrong, but who in God's name needed a source and thought of f*cking Scott f*cking Walker?
His schedule was available publicly in about 3 clicks
nice work by ucpd verifying the tweet as authentic. im the first to call out bad cops so its only fair i commend them when they get it right.
If we say it, people say we're crazy though.
AZ seems like its going to flip. Both Senators will be Dems in a formerly very Republican state.
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I’m increasingly feeling like we’ll be relying on Arizona to save us from another Donald term.
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