Election of 1980

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Election of 1980

ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO?

Reagan's own factors

Governor of California

Faced hardships of Great Depression

Support Speech for Barry Goldwater

Toured country giving speeches for GE

Hollywood career made him charismatic

Factors For Reagan's Election

Short Term

Carter's disapproval

unfunded mandates, things required but not payed for by federal government

Formation of New Right and further separation from bipartisan agreements

SALT II treaty went against anti-communist beliefs and the detente

Long Term

People moving to the suburbs who were originally Democrat had been attracted to Conservative ideas. By the 1980's the Republican party was the dominant party in the region.

Concern of cultural change caused more religiously active groups to emerge, like the Moral Majority

Vietnam and Great Society under Johnson who was a democrat

Social Programs and Vietnam Spending put country in stagflation

failures in 1964 with Barry Goldwater