abstract:Reagan Democrat is an American political term used by analysts to denote traditionally Democratic voters, especially white working-class Northerners, who defected from their party to support Republican President Ronald Reagan in both the 1980 and 1984 elections. It is also used to refer to the smaller but still substantial number of Democrats who voted for George H.
In nineteen eighty, he supported the Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, for president over the Democrat, President Jimmy Carter.
VOA: special.2009.08.30
Blue collar voters -- never drawn to Obama (think Hillary Clinton in 2008 Democratic primaries) -- may desert him in numbers that approach the "Reagan Democrat" defections in 1980.
If she convinces the undecided that Mr Obama is weak among swing voters including this year's favourite, the ReaganDemocrat, blue-collar but socially conservative she may drag the contest out until the last primary on June 3rd.
Eisenhower, Republican Gerald Ford, Democrat Bill Clinton, Republican Richard Nixon, Republican Ronald Reagan, Democrat Obama, Republican George Bush Sr.