What percentage of Regan Democrats will vote Bush again?>

[vision]

All the talk about Nader this, Nader that but the Reagan Democrats should be a bigger concern. The diehard left and those that voted for Nader is a smaller percentage than the ones that voted for Bush. So will these people come home or will they vote for Bush?

[janx]

1. Are you kidding?

Reagan Dems are now the religious right and even some of the Buchanan "paleo conservatives" !

Time passes very quickly, doesn't it?

[R3dD0g]

2. Reagan Dems are people who

vote against their own economic self interest in order to further a social agenda they favor. These are the same people who will vote * in the GE in order to prohibit abortion (though * has done nothing on that) or to prohibit gay marriage (though *'s proposal is entirely a throwaway) or to make sure the world trembles at our feet (thought * has the world despising us).

These people are never coming back to the Dem party. They'll vote against theirselves forever.

[Dr Fate]

3. I have always called them "moderates" or "centrists"...

...I think "Reagan Democrats" is a media/GOP term...

Does anyone think that these "Reagan Democrats" have little donkey statues and pictues of FDR & JFK hanging in there houses?

It's a pro-GOP media term for moderate voters who may have voted DEM before...

[wuushew]

4. I don't think they exist anymore

weren't they all assimilated by the GOP collective?

[bluestateguy]

5. There's no such thing as a Reagan Democrat anymore

So called "Reagan Democrats" are a thing of the past back from the days when Michael Jackson was still black, Tears for Fears was still together and banks were trying out a new device called ATM's. The year is 2004, not 1984.

[bluestateguy]

7. My grandmother was a Reagan Democrat

She just loved Ronald Reagan, but has voted Democratic ever since 1988. She was pissed off about Iran-Contra, though she never seemed to blame President Reagan himself for it. She has always hated the Bush family.

[corporatewhore]

6. well we know which candidate has been elected to office w/reagandemsupport

and his name rhymes w/ spinach

[ButterflyBlood]

10. and he has as much chance of being nominated as LaRouche

n/t

[Doomsayer13]

8. I know a few who are

They supported the war and are pretty Conservative Dems overall. They think Bush is a strong leader. Can't convince them otherwise.

[ButterflyBlood]

9. Reagan Democrats are really just swing voters

that are socially conservative and economically liberal. Swing voters who are socially liberal and economically conservative who voted for Clinton aren't called Clinton Republicans.

[Sugarbleus]

11. check this out: re Nader

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040225-090220-3836r.htm

Factoring in Nader
By Donald Lambro
Published February 26, 2004

Democrats say George Bush wouldn't be in the White House today if Ralph Nader had not run for president in 2000, and there is a lot of truth to that claim.
They also say Mr. Nader's plan to get on the ballot again this year, this time as an independent, will get a lot of help from Republicans who want him to do to John Kerry what he did to Al Gore. And there's a lot of truth to that, too. Republicans will eagerly line up to sign Mr. Nader's ballot petitions in as many states as possible -- from Maine to California.
.................

[FDRrocks]

12. Who is Regan?

If you meant Regan... well... 'Reagan Democrats' is an oxymoron, to me. I know a person who calls themself a 'Reagan Democrat'. He lectured me on how important the Vietnam War was and how Iraq is the same deal. It's bullshit. People are what they vote.

[quaker bill]

13. Too many.

Nothing like another "MA Liberal" to bring out the worst in people.

[fujiyama]

14. What exactly is...

a "Reagan Democrat"? I never thought the term made much sense and it isn't really applicable anymore. Are these people "Bush Democrats" (a very big oxymoron in itself)?

Many times, when the media speaks of Reagan democrats, they speak of Oakland County, a suburb of Detroit, MI, where Reagan won quite handily. Well, rebulicans haven't carried that place since Bush I in his first election.

Other areas are probably in IL, PA, and OH. The first is practically a lock, and PA isn't looking bad either. I'd say we need to work on OH though, which although, not being a southern state, is somewhat southern culturally - for example, these are places where the the Gs make a difference -- Guns, God, and Gays.

The new "Reagan Democrats" have also shifted in geography. In the last decade, the southwest has seen a huge increase in population. We might look to focus more on AZ, NV, and NM, rather than on the traditional south -- even AK and LA would be extremely tough to crack.