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HenryH
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« on: March 27, 2014, 06:06:38 AM » |
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I agree. The election of 1988 is a really interesting one. In a way you could call it a transformative election. It is the last Presidential Election of the Republican “Eisenhower-coalition” that had dominated American politics since 1952. With this coalition they were still able to win states Delaware, New Jersey, Vermont an Illinois.
On the other side of the spectrum you can see that the Democrats are still holding on to pieces of their old coalition. In just a few years a Northeastern Democrat would stand no chance of winning West Virginia, but party loyalty was still strong enough in 1988 to deliver the state to Dukakis.
I don’t believe in realignment theory. But if such a thing exists, then 1988 would be the last election before the realigning election of 1992.
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