The Washington Post, July 31st, 1988
WHAT AMERICANS REALLY THINK And Why Our Politicians Pay No Attention By Barry Sussman Pantheon. 278 pp. $18.95 RONALD REAGAN, surely the most conservative president since Calvin Coolidge, captured 59 percent of the popular vote and carried 49 of 50 states. Republicans have won four of the last five presidential elections. In the mid-1970s, Democrats enjoyed a 25-point lead in party affiliation; by 1986, that margin had shriveled to one point. In a brief five-year span, from 1980 to 1985, the Democrats lost 12 million adherents and the Republicans gained 14 million. Not surprisingly, most obser...
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