To be far though, that last part could have easily been garnered simply from cruising any politically oriented site, that was not hardcore leftist, after the elections of 2008 and 2012. They would not really have found a whole lot of optimism, just to be fair here. They would not find a whole lot of optimism on any political oriented forum right now either unless it had Obama groupies for a majority of its posters.
Just what does 2008 and 2012 have to do with Reagan? Did you help write the Reagan portion of the book?