Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush succeed even further by bringing into the coalition Christian Fundamentalism.
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He also was a prominent economic adviser to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
We know that both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush received about that level of support among this key voting group.
After all, Ronald Reagan and George W Bush had their moments that the East Coast perceived as indiscretions, but the Midwest saw as hilarious or righteous.
W. Bush and Ronald Reagan didn't do so, and George W. Bush waited until the last year of his second term, when he visited twice.
Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush continued and expanded this strategy of bringing all conservatives into a single party.
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That's what Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan did, and George W. Bush tried on Social Security.
W. Bush (56), and even Ronald Reagan (21) in the first three years. (George W. Bush, however, held only 11).
The others - Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush - all had major events that undermined their political standing.
Lionel Sosa is an ad man, a Republican and a Latino, who was involved in the presidential campaigns for Ronald Reagan and both George HW and George W Bush.
"There isn't any connection between connecting with an average voter and being an average voter, " said Julian Zelizer, a CNN contributor and history and public affairs professor at Princeton University who has written books on former Presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.
What no one dares stop calling the Special Relationship has been defined down the years by images - Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher dancing, George W Bush joking about sharing Colgate with a grinning Tony Blair squeezed into crotch hugging chinos and years later spinning a be-suited and grim-faced Gordon Brown around in a golf buggy.
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W. Bush campaigned on Ronald Reagan's record and essentially promised to do more of the same, just in kinder and gentler fashion.
W. Bush was making much the same argument against Ronald Reagan that Mitt Romney is making this year.
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In the case of George W. Bush, the orthodoxy would be that of Ronald Reagan and his belief in cutting taxes, conducting an aggressive foreign policy and following a social policy that suits religious and social conservatives.
President Ronald Reagan began saying "we'll listen to the military", and George W Bush made a political mantra of "we'll listen to the commanders in the field", he says.
If, in the eighties, the media's political humor was honed in the wrinkled face of Ronald Reagan, and later the media had a field day with the physique of George W. Bush, for four years it has been cautious with the current resident of the White House.
If W. is to secure in this area the kind of electoral mandate that Ronald Reagan enjoyed, however, he is going to have to abandon glib talk about "skipping a generation" of military hardware.
Like George Miller, Barney Frank and the other liberals produced by Vietnam and Watergate, Mr. Waxman belongs to a cohort whose power has been checked -- one way or the other -- by Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton's New Democrat tendencies, the Republican sweep of 1994 and George W. Bush.
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