[Strategerist]

Reagan also was not running on social issues. He was running on optimism, anti-communism, and fiscal conservatism.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Great points. Thanks!

[KansasGirl]

[Reagan also was not running on social issues. He was running on optimism, anti-communism, and fiscal conservatism.]

Did you listen to Santorum’s CPAC speech? Sounded like that’s what he is running on to me. Also, for freedom, against Obamneycare socialism.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

[Reagan also was not running on social issues. He was running on optimism, anticommunism, and fiscal conservatism.]

You hit on some very key points. Reagan ran during a time when America was still a whole lot more basically Conservative than it is now. There is very little resemblance or comparison of the America then, and the America now.

There is a new underlying majority among Blacks and Hispanics that is not even being considered. Add to that, the new generations of younger indoctrinated voters who have been given their political views from the Public education system.

The Demographics of the new America is not even close to the same as it was during Reagan's time. (I was there. I worked for Reagan's campaign.)