sg0508
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« on: November 02, 2011, 10:54:45 AM » |
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1984- We know that minorities had issues with Reagan's policies and trickle-down economics and that was probably the reason why PA was a weak Reagan win (53%-46%). Ironically, NY was a bit stronger for Reagan (by 1%). My guess is that Reagan's overwhelming margins on my native Long Island and enough white collar business folks in the boroughs were enough in NY. I'm just interested in how NY could have been a stronger GOP win that year.
1988- The gun/crime issue seemed to hamper Dukakis all along, but how in the heck did he lose PA consider that he ran a relatively blue collar-type campaign given Reagan's weak result in 1984? Also, NY went back to being democratic by 4%, which was standard when the state's GOP was relatively moderate (Nixon in '60 and Ford in '76 lost by similar margins). It's just interesting to see the Democrats lose PA that year after Mondale gave Reagan a good fight there in '84, yet NY jumped back into the democratic column despite the stronger Reagan showing in '84. Cuomo maybe? I doubt it.
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