abstract:The Reagan coalition was the combination of voters that Republican Ronald Reagan assembled to produce a major political realignment with his landslide in the 1980 United States Presidential Election. In 1980 the Reagan coalition was possible because of Democrat Jimmy Carter's losses in most social-economic groups.
He said I'm going to bust up the Reagancoalition of people who care about the Second Amendment and taxes and the First Amendment on campaign finance reform and tax issues.
After two Reagan landslide wins, it took George Bush just one term to trash the Reagancoalition, crawling out of town in 1992 with just 38% of the vote, barely better than Alf Landon in 1936.