[Will88]

Yes and no. For polling purposes, Reagan was out of the limelight as a politician in the early 1970s and did a radio show every week. There's not much difference there.

Reagan was Governor of California from 1967 - 1975, and was often in the news dealing with all the protests in California, as well as more normal duties of a governor.

[LS]

In other words, from 1975 to 1980, he wasn’t in the limelight any more than Palin.