ElectionsGuy
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« on: March 24, 2014, 06:20:48 AM » |
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As I said here:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=188900.msg4086941#msg4086941
in 1988, E.J. Dionne wrote about the Democrat's demographic crisis, since the GOP had an advantage among the young at that time. By ~1990/1991, when the GOP had won three consecutive presidential elections and Bush was riding high on Gulf War glory, people were talking about the GOP's insurmountable lock on the presidency.
Then after Clinton won two presidential elections, it was all doom and gloom for the GOP, and then the CW switched again after Bush's 2004 win, when Dems half joked about secession of Democratic states from the USA, and many here on Atlas insisted that the Dems would need to nominate an Evan Bayh or a Mark Warner if they wanted any hope of winning a presidential election soon.
Basically, every time a party wins two or more presidential elections in a row, there's a lot of talk about that party's enormous structural advantage, and how the opposition party is doomed.
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