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Go find ten random people who were adults in the 1980s and ask them if they wished carter would have gotten a second term or that Mondale Ferraro could have won
by mattrp 7y ago
Go find ten random people who were adults in the 1980s and ask them if they wished carter would have gotten a second term or that Mondale Ferraro could have won in 84. Then come back and let me know if any of the could stop laughing hysterically to even answer the question.
- dragonwriter 7y agoAnd...what would that prove, even if your assumption about the results was correct? It certainly wouldn't be evidence against what I said upthread.
- mattrp 7y agoI believe you said Reagan's policies didn't benefit most people at the time of his administration. If that were true, then I think people who were of voting age at the time likely would have had time to reflect on how they felt when they handed Reagan the largest landslide victory of all time and whether they still feel that way today. My guess, and I'm sorry if I came across as a jerk, but my guess is that most people, upon reflection would still say, given the alternatives of Jimmy Carter or Walter Mondale, they still benefited more under Reagan more than the other possible candidates. As for ending WWII prosperity, Vietnam and a couple of oil shocks took care of that long before Reagan became president.