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In reply to the discussion: Taking on the Zombie Perot-Myth/Smear (With Maddow video) [View all]ericson00
(2,707 posts)and that is considered to be a pivotal election in America's political history as well as a realignment. While on policy you have some points, you need to win elections to implement them. Without Nixon turning the South GOP on a long-term basis and exploited race so compellingly, no Reagan Revolution. Even for the fact many Republicans thought Nixon's policies were not conservative enough, they don't try to diminish his electoral impact. Its simply ridiculous to diminish Clinton's electoral impact. Without the states I mentioned in the OP that McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis lost that Clinton won and kept in the Dem column for the last 23 years thru thick (Gore and Kerry) and thin (Clinton and Obama), Obama wouldn't have had 270+ EVs. You can try to play it out on 270towin.com's historical map. It looks like this.
Also, the "its only demographics" stuff is the stuff GOP arguments are made it, always out-of-one's-control, everyone else's fault/achievement.