King's Row
Major Christian issues in 1978-1980
Reagan's Convention Speech, 1980
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Atwater in 1981, off-the-record interview
You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."
Lee Atwater, 1981
Reagan in Office
Apple ad, 1984
Reagan on Government
Who loses in the Age of Fracture?
Some Contested issues, 1980 - 2008:
Some uncontested Issues, 1980 - 2008:
Some dead issues, 1980 - 2008:
Major Deregulatory Moves:
Clinton on Government