Describe a McGovern 1972/Reagan 1980 voter (user search)
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« on: May 04, 2023, 08:46:02 PM »

Someone from Washtenaw County MI (home to Ann Arbor). Was a student at University of Michigan in 1972, anti-war, voted McGovern. In 1980, a middle class married man with kids, voted Reagan. The county was McGovern-Reagan.

I also imagine that, while D-leaning voters nationwide were substantially more likely than the other way around to pick Nixon over McGovern in 1972 and then pick Mondale over Reagan in 1984, vice versa may have been the case for liberal college kids considering that 72 Nixon was much "meaner" than McGovern whereas Reagan was no less "nice" (if not even "nicer") than Mondale.
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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2023, 08:51:20 PM »

A Nixon '72-Mondale '84 one would be even harder

The difference in the national popular vote margins of victory between 72 and 84 is enough to singlehandedly prove that wrong.

Furthermore, there exists a very clear archetype for Nixon 72-Mondale 84 voters - Republicans and Social Conservatives who were opposed to Reaganomics (and/or found Reagan's personality to be off-putting/inauthentic or otherwise dislikeable) - which most likely represented a larger share of the US population (in both 1972 and 1984) than whatever archetype(s) one could come up with for a McGovern 72-Reagan 84 voter
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