So why is he still more or less dead even with Romney? Answer: Romney!
True, but Reagan was down by over 12 points to Jimmy Catah in September of 1980. We all know how that turned out.
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Reagan's great advantage was that the more people heard him the more they liked him, largely because he actually had conservative convictions and stood by them. Romney is such a weak-sounding finger-in-the-wind snoozer of a candidate that it's hard to see him getting a similar surge. I wonder if the GOP will ever allow a strong candidate to be nominated in my lifetime.