Reply #2: I am going by what I remember from back then and to be honest the way I remember

[mrcheerful]

it Reagans numbers were higher then Carters. Remember inflation was sky high due to republican mis handling the counrty under Ford And Nixon. Yet Reagan was able to lay the blame on Carter for the mess, Carter had 4 years to clean up the economic mess left behind by Nixon and Ford. Reagan also blamed the 1974 OPEC gas shortage on Carter too, though that happened 2 years before Carter was elected. The majority of the american people ate that up reguardless of what liberals and citizens of Cali said about Reagan. He was very popular even with a lot of democratic supporters, Remember the Reagan democrats? Carter was seen as a weak flip flopper that couldn't decide what was best for the country, then the Iran Hostage crisis hit and that doomed Carter. Reagan pretty much pulled a WWF move on the country, ran his mouth and bull shitted the voters into voting against their gut feelings. I always remembered Reagan polling higher then the rest of the republican hopefuls and his landslide victory in the primaries against better canidates always baffled me because I seen Reagans lies from the start.