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	Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, the second of two sons to catholic, Irish-American democrat John "Jack" Reagan and Nelle Wilson, who was of English and Scottish descent.
		Reagan's clear voice and athletic physique made him popular with some audiences; the majority of his screen roles were as the leading man in B movies.
		Reagan's landslide win in the 1984 presidential election is often attributed by political commentators to be a result of his conversion of the "Reagan Democrats," the traditionally Democratic voters who voted for Reagan in that election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronald_Reagan (6822 words)

	Encyclopedia: Reagan Democrat
		Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 â€“ June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981â€“1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967â€“1975).
		Others point out that Reagan's strong anti-communist foreign policy and support for tax relief were positions held by Democrats such as John F. Kennedy, but the party had since moved away from.
		Stanley Bernard Greenberg (born May 10, 1945) is a leading Democratic pollster and political strategist who has advised the campaigns of the Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry, as well as hundreds of other candidates and organizations in the United States and around the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Reagan-Democrat (737 words)

	© 2004, Gannett News Service
		Reagan was a son of the Midwest, born into modest means in Illinois in 1911.
		Reagan's greatest legacy was the conservative patriotic mood that began in a period that bears his name - the Reagan era.
		Reagan challenged Nixon's appointed successor, Gerald R. Ford, for the presidency in 1976 and nearly wrested the GOP nomination away, losing by 60 delegate votes at a hotly contested Republican convention.
	wkyc.gannettonline.com /gns/reagan/obit.html (2351 words)

	CONFESSIONS OF A REAGAN DEMOCRAT
		And as soon as Reagan was inaugurated the Iranian government, probably as a good will gesture to Reagan, whose campaign speeches they thought indicated the bellicose threats "of that wild American cowboy", released all the hostages intact and unharmed.
		This overrode the fact that this union was one of the few that had supported Reagan in the election and that many people, including myself, feared that the people who were hired in place of the fired air controllers would not be competent and crashes would occur.
		Reagan took full responsibility for the sale of arms but denied any knowledge of aiding the contras, and became known as the Teflon President for being completely absolved in the illegal mess of aiding the contras, who finally did triumph in a legal election in ousting the leftist Sandinistas.
	www.spectacle.org /0704/sy.html (2412 words)

	Reagan Democrat -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Reagan was himself once a Democrat, but made the switch to Republican before the (Click link for more info and facts about 1964 elections) 1964 elections.
		The classic study of Reagan Democrats is probably (Click link for more info and facts about Stan Greenberg) Stan Greenberg's 1985 work analyzing white voters, largely unionized auto workers, in suburban (Click link for more info and facts about Macomb County, Michigan) Macomb County, Michigan.
		He concluded that they no longer saw Democrats as champions of the middle class, but instead identified them as being the party of (Click link for more info and facts about African American) African Americans and the very poor.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/reagan_democrat.htm (161 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - Any "Reagan Democrats" out there???
		I was born a Democrat and have always been one, but that year I voted for Reagan for the first term because the country was in such a bad state, we needed a change.
		Reagan succeeded in bankrupting the country, but at least you knew he was what he presented himself to be.
		Reagan had no idea what kind of deficits he was going to run and what harm he was going to do to average, working taxpayers in this country.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID60/27948.html (2174 words)

	Ronald Wilson Reagan
		Reagan earned a BA degree in 1932 from Eureka (Ill.) College, where a photographic memory aided in his studies and in debating and college theatricals.
		Reagan's popularity with the public dipped sharply in 1986 when the Iran-Contra scandal broke, shortly after the Democrats gained control of the Senate.
		Reagan could point to numerous domestic achievements as well: sharp cuts in income tax rates, creating economic growth without inflation, and reducing the unemployment rate, among others.
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0760624.html (1014 words)

	Brent Budowsky on Ronald Reagan on National Review Online
		Reagan did not accomplish all of these things, but he played a preeminent role in most of them, and more than any single individual he set the stage for a world in which such things were possible.
		Reagan's worldview was sweetened by the romantic love at the center of his life with Nancy, who will someday receive the historical credit she is due for inspiring a president to reach for greatness.
		Reading the extraordinary collection of Reagan’s letters published by the Andersons and Kiron Skinner, we see a depth and sense of history that was far more profound than generally known at the time — one that served the nation well during the great events.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/budowsky200412150854.asp (921 words)

	Reagan reshaped Michigan politics - 06/07/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		President Ronald Reagan changed Michigan’s political equilibrium forever after inspiring the infamous “Reagan Democrats” — a grassroots movement that ultimately swept John Engler into the governor’s office and sent a new wave of conservatism rolling across the United States.
		She said during the time of President Kennedy the county was one of “the most Democratic in the nation.” In 1980, she said, “We weren’t sure what we were.
		But Sarpolus said the Reagan phenomenon was not a factor in Republican successes in the South, which saw a huge sea change in the 1960s because of civil rights.
	www.detnews.com /2004/project/0406/09/a01-175983.htm (1196 words)

	Reagan reshaped Michigan politics - 6/7/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lalonde and pollster Mitchell agree that the luster is off the term in Macomb since many Reagan Democrats have shifted their allegiance to the Republican Party in recent years.
		The Reagan Democrat phenomenon was also strong in northern Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
		Reagan to lie in state in D.C.; burial in Calif.
	www.detnews.com /2004/project/0406/07/a01-175983.htm (1196 words)

	Secrets of the "Reagan Democrats” [Free Republic]
		The fundamental reason for the victories of Ronald Reagan (1980 and 1984) and George H.W. Bush (1988) is that they ran on a solid conservative agenda that was easily understood, and believed, by conservative base voters.
		I'm a democrat, I'm from a democratic family, and I'm a Reagan democrat.
		Their chief goal is to further the advancment of world socialism and global government, and they'll do it by selling themselves as ordinary people representing the causes of the working and lower-classes of America, as well as (distort and propagandize) the causes of minorities.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38df7b1a23ef.htm (2449 words)

	Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics, Iraq, and Culture
		One debate with David Limbaugh happened at the exact moment that Ronald Reagan’s casket was being transferred to the caisson for its journey to the Capitol Rotunda.
		It wasn’t an effort to cast off the proud label of Reagan Democrat that had once meant so much to me, but simply as an acknowledgment of what being a Democrat had come to represent in a life that needed more than just one note to hum.
		First, though Reagan began as a Democrat, then ended up leading through the help of many in his former party, none were asked to speak about the man they loved to fight in battle.
	www.taylormarsh.com /articles_view.php?id=552 (1461 words)

	Gipper gone, but 'spirit is still alive' - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 06, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nancy Reagan stood by her husband through the highs of his presidency and lows of his disease.
		Reagan's hometown, patrons at the Dutch Diner were "a little surprised" to learn of his demise, said Tressa Card, the 28-year-old daughter of the owners.
		At a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in Macomb County, Mich., where the term Reagan Democrat was hatched in 1980 after he captured the vote of conservative Democrats — many of them blue-collar — the flag was lowered immediately to half-staff when news of the president's death was broadcast.
	www.washingtontimes.com /national/20040606-124353-6543r.htm (893 words)

	Democrat Reagan Republican Ronald Resources from the Right Side of the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Debate Between the President and Former Vice President Walter F....of the League of Women Voters, the sponsor of tonight's first Presidential debate between Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Walter Mondale.
		Ronald Wilson Reagan (born February 6, 1911) was the 40th (1981-1989) President of the...
		It was: Ronald Reagan, the president, the president...
	www.rtside.com /directory/democrat-reagan-republican-ronald.html (511 words)

	AFA.Net - Divisions - Center for Law and Policy
		She is the antithesis of the Reagan Democrat who supported fair trade, a secure border, and the preservation of American sovereignty.
		Clinton’s speech at the DNC Convention was quintessential of the New Democrat mentality--distract, distort and deny.
		While the Democrats have sought to win the Reagan Democrats with empty words, it is up to the GOP to win those very voters with definable actions.
	www.afa.net /CLP/GetArticle.asp?id=27 (1092 words)

	Recounting My Days As A Six Year Old Reagan Democrat -- Mike Bayham -- GOPUSA
		The only thing for me that has changed is that instead of being a "Reagan Democrat", I am now a "Reagan Republican" as it was Ronald Reagan who made the GOP worth joining for millions of Americans, who during the eighties left a Democratic Party that had abandoned them decades before.
		Reagan showed that it was not necessary to skimp on principle to succeed in politics.
		Reagan also proved that it was possible to challenge the established political order and succeed, even if at first (and second) you don't succeed.
	www.gopusa.com /commentary/mbayham/2004/mb_0615.shtml (996 words)

	PoliPundit.com » Reagan Democrats mourn loss
		All the meanwhile the Democrats were sliding further and further into the abyss of social liberalism, pessismism, tax and spend economics, and “blame Americaa first” foreign policy of the McGovern/Mondale variety.
		The Democrats have not recovered from this, yet the Republicans have not fully taken advantage of this, though President Bush is trying hard, and I believe resonating with blue collar voters.
		Reagan’s 1984 campaign commercial using Lee Greenwood’s song, “I’m Proud to Be an American,” with scenes of rolling farms, steel mills, churches and coal miners set afire a passion for the Republican Party” See here
	www.polipundit.com /index.php?p=2838 (383 words)

	Common Creeps: Reagan Democrat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		REAGAN DEMOCRAT - He was a lifelong Democrat who voted for Reagan twice, believing that Reagan would "get government out of our lives." Unaware that deregulation favored big corporate interests, he still supports the working class over the upper class.
		In 1996 he reluctantly voted for Clinton, but gladly voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004 on the basis that there was still some connection with the Reagan era.
		Even though he supported all the government programs that Reagan did away with, and was disgusted by the Iran-Contra affair, he echoes the media mantra that Reagan "made people feel good about America again," admitting that it takes an entertaining President to put him in a positive mood about his country.
	tangentsunset.com /creeps/reagandemocrat.htm (147 words)

	Democrat & Chronicle: Reagan was a big star in private lives, too (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Elaine Parrish, 70, of Ionia, Ontario County, said that she named her son after him in 1954; 30 years later, she sat in the 10th row at the War Memorial, where Reagan spoke during a campaign stop, and was pictured the next day on the front page of the Canandaigua Messenger, she said.
		And when Reagan’s death was announced, that was the first thing I thought of.
		Reagan, a GE spokesman at the time, had been sent to dozens of company facilities to promote the General Electric Theater program and become familiar with company people and products.
	www.democratandchronicle.com /news/0611754IFPL_news.shtml (846 words)

	The new San Francisco democrat
		As a lifelong Democrat, Reagan's former representative to the United Nations explained that it was the first Republican convention she'd ever attended.
		Jeanne Kirkpatrick was a so-called Reagan Democrat, but the reality is that Reagan didn't pull her out of the Democratic Party, the San Francisco Democrats chased her out.
		He was one of the first "new Democrats." In the 1980s, he mastered the Byzantine minutiae of arms control and supported the MX missile.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/758145/posts (1423 words)

	Articles - Ronald Reagan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Reaganâ€™s change in party affiliation came about at a time when the country seemed to be making a different turn.
		Reagan also visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he cited Anne Frank and ended his speech with the words, "Never again."
		Reagan's fiscal and tax policies were said by some to have increased social inequality and economic instability, his efforts to cut welfare and income taxes becoming common flashpoints between critics who charged that this primarily benefited the well off in America.
	www.efireplaces.net /articles/Ronald_Reagan (6444 words)

	Political Animal: Comment on Is Wes Clark a Democrat?
		This, of course, was risky, and could have lead to nuclear war (though Reagan himself was very fearful of this--unlike some of the wacko right evangelicals); but Reagan won his gamble (fortunately Gorbachev was leading the Soviets), so he gets the accreditation of great leader.
		Even if Clark is only a tepid Democrat now, or even if he's only an opportunist, by the time Karl Rove and the Media, Faux and "Liberal" alike, are done sliming him, his family, his friends, and anyone he's ever done business with, he will be more Democrat than anyone posting here.
		Accordingly, I'm not upset with any Democratic candidate who raises the issue because it does not diminish the Democratic prospects in the general election (except to the extent it reduces Clark's nomination prospects).
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2244 (4444 words)

	7/8/2004 - Stuart James: Remembering Ronald Reagan - Opinion - Chattanoogan.com
		I must disclose that I was a Reagan Democrat.
		As a conservative Democrat, I voted for Ronald Reagan.
		Reagan for what he accomplished in "tearing down that wall,” I do not think that Ronald Reagan should replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_52638.asp (390 words)

	WorldNetDaily: 'Headlights for Reagan' beaming across nation
		Indeed, after just a few days of national publicity, reports from across the country of thousands of cars with their headlights on – during the day – seem to show Just's "bright idea" for honoring Ronald Reagan with the help of halogens is really gathering momentum.
		Reagan knew that and often reminded us about the dangers of statism – governments that think they are God."
		Meanwhile, Just is thinking big – really big: "Imagine if Eastern Europe and the rest of the old Soviet empire freed by Reagan started turning on their headlights too," he said.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38979 (673 words)

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		Posted by jiacinto on Jan-12-03 at 10:36 PM I thought you were attacking him and accusing him of being a freeper.
		Posted by LiberalLibra on Jan-12-03 at 05:59 PM Never did like Reagan even when it was popular to like him and no I did not vote for that mentally "out to lunch" actor either time.
		Posted by w13rd0 on Jan-12-03 at 06:30 PM...but even by the "Reagan" measure, the "Reagan Revolution" is dead.
	www.democraticunderground.com /cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=printer_format&om=27948&forum=DCForumID60 (2474 words)

	Return of the Reagan Democrat By Michael Brus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On Friday several dozen senators, mostly Democrats, called on the Bush administration to declassify the material.
		A Post story recounts the second midnight run of Texas Democrats from the state legislature in Austin to hotel rooms in New Mexico, in order to prevent Republicans from achieving a quorum for political redistricting.
		The National Rifle Association, which gets to bypass the gun-control-friendly media and take its message directly to the people, and Democratic presidential contender Bob Graham, who gets to tout his Southern, rural bona fides to an audience that most Democrats can't reach.
	slate.msn.com /id/2086548 (1018 words)

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