Is "Reagan Democrat" the dumbest term in the American politics lexicon?

[The Mikado]

No. BTW, they're called Reagan Democrats because they voted for Reagan in 1980 and/or 1984 and then began voting Democrat again, especially after 1988. I'm sure there are many people in Western PA who voted Reagan 1980 and/or 1984 and Obama 2008.

Note the map BRTD put up.  That shows Mondale (who got wiped out nationally) winning large chunks of Western PA that Obama lost 24 years later.

[The Mikado]

Yes, easily. It is so mind-numblingly moronic hearing it gives me the urge to smack the complete moron who said it.

Remember how in 2008 we kept hearing about how Western Pennsylvania was full of Reagan Democrats?



Idiots.

It doesn't apply to Western PA, but take a look at Erie, Scranton, and Allentown.

Reagan won by 18 points nationwide. He won by 3 points in Erie county, and about 2 in Lackawanna. He won by 20 points in Lehigh County, but that's still barely over the national average. Meanwhile note the Philly suburbs. The real "Reagan Democrats" in Pennsylvania are the affluent suburban ones and that's true just about anywhere.

They would be "Reagan Republicans," considering that that cohort didn't start moving to the Dems until the 2000s.