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Article: Excuses, excuses. (Republican's winning the 1984 election)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 30, 1984
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THE REPUBLICANS have now won three landslides in the last four presidential elections--and always in races between candidates of marked ideological differences. It's getting damned hard for liberals to keep disguising the plain fact that the voters are rejecting liberal extremism. Herewith a few emerging lines of explanation, designed to obscure the obvious. Listen for them during the weeks to come.
1. Reagan really has no mandate.
2. Reagan got the votes of barely a third of the eligible voters.
3. The country, after all, is at peace.
4. The country is enjoying a Keynesian recovery.
5. Inflation is down, thanks to the ...