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Enter the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign, stage right
by z3c0 4y ago
Enter the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign, stage right
- linksnapzz 4y agoI can't find the citation, but legend has it that as CA governor, Reagan was in his limo, and was surrounded by protestors in Berkeley. They were chanting "We are the future!" while pounding on the windows of the car. Reagan got his notepad out, and wrote "If you are the future, I'm selling all my stocks!" on a sheet of paper, and held it up to the window for them to read.
- nebula8804 4y agoBut that makes no sense. Didn't Reagan win due to an outpouring of support from the Boomers who at the time were those young people?
- linksnapzz 4y agoHahahahah. No. He won b/c he annoyed those people, to the delight of their parents.
- nebula8804 4y agoLooking at the demographic breakdown it certainly seems like he got most of the boomers(and their parents). The boomers were in their 20-30s at the time. [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_coalition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_coalition
- linksnapzz 4y agoHe was governor of California at the time; twelve odd years later I suppose many of his critics had grown up…