...president in 1980, succeeding Jimmy Carter, an unpopular president who was seen to be out of his depth. After a shaky first year-and-a-half, Reagan's stimulus bill (in the form of a massive tax cut) kicked in and the economy recovered. In 1984, the Democrats ran Walter Mondale, Carter's running mate in the previous election. An ideologue who was the darling of the party's base, Mondale went down to a crushing defeat. The popular vote was about 59% to 41% and Mondale could only manage to carry his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. Barack Obama has called Reagan a "transformational" president.
A new poll out has Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate in the last election, leading the pack for the Republican nomination for 2012. She's an ideologue and the darling of her party's base.
In a hypothetical general election match up against President Obama, Palin gets crushed 56 to 33. Other than winning Republicans by a margin of 73-20, Palin loses to Obama in every other data cut: by region, income, education, race, age, and gender.
http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2009/08/18/marist-2012-poll-palin-at-top-of-gop-primary-pack-but-loses-badly-to-obama-in-general/
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