{"id":1425,"date":"2009-12-09T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/09\/can-obama-channel-reagan"},"modified":"2009-12-09T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T20:20:00","slug":"can-obama-channel-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Can Obama channel Reagan?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For the Republicans who think President Obama, who’s been in office for not quite a year, is toast if he runs for re-election in 2012, I have a two-word response: Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n

In 1981, Reagan took office with the economy in serious decline. In 1982, the president’s party suffered significant losses in the off-year congressional elections, losing 27 House seats to the Democrats. President Reagan’s approval ratings fell dramatically. The GOP was in a state of woeful disrepair.<\/p>\n

Then, just like that, it was “morning in America.” The Democrats nominated a candidate, Walter Mondale, who vowed to raise taxes. President Reagan seized on an economic reversal.<\/p>\n

How did the 1984 election turn out? Well, the president came within 3,000 votes in Minnesota — Mondale’s home state — of scoring a 50-state sweep on his way to a rousing re-election victory.<\/p>\n

It’s also helpful to remember that Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party suffered big losses in 1994. President Clinton, though, won re-election handily two years later.<\/p>\n

Will a similar outcome occur in 2012? I have no way of knowing that. I do know this, however: It is far too early in the current president’s first term to be writing his political obituary.<\/p>\n\n

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For the Republicans who think President Obama, who’s been in office for not quite a year, is toast if he runs for re-election in 2012, I have a two-word response: Ronald Reagan. In 1981, Reagan took office with the economy in serious decline. In 1982, the president’s party suffered significant losses in the off-year congressional … Continue reading Can Obama channel Reagan?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}