Describe a Reagan 1980/Mondale 1984 voter

[darklordoftech]

Could someone who's normally a Democrat but blamed Carter for stagflation and Iran vote this way?

[Sumner 1868]

A family farmer - probably from Iowa, though the Dakotas are also a strong possibility- who reacts to the first-wave of the 80s farm crisis.

[Beet]

Could someone who's normally a Democrat but blamed Carter for stagflation and Iran vote this way?

A PATCO worker.

[OSR stands with Israel]

A voter in Western PA

[All Along The Watchtower]

An impoverished farmer or "blue-collar" worker in the Upper Midwest/Rust Belt.

[Liberalrocks]

A voter from the San Francisco Bay area.

[Calthrina950]

Also, a voter from Denver County, Colorado. Reagan won Denver County in 1980, thanks in part to Anderson, but it flipped to Mondale in 1984, even though Reagan got over 60% of the vote in Colorado, the last presidential candidate from either party to win the state by a double-digit margin.

[Lechasseur]

My understanding is a lot of Jews voted for Reagan in 1980 due to unhappiness with Jimmy Carter's foreign policy but then returned to the Democrats in 1984. I'll verify that to be sure.

[President Johnson]

Could someone who's normally a Democrat but blamed Carter for stagflation and Iran vote this way?

The question is why he or she didn't vote for John Anderson? A tactical Reagan vote to make sure he wins and ousts Carter?

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

Native American from Apache county (A Reagan 80 Mondale 84 county).

[sg0508]

A small business owner who was smart enough to realize that the Reagan team's economics to empower Corporate America were bad.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Could someone who's normally a Democrat but blamed Carter for stagflation and Iran vote this way?

The question is why he or she didn't vote for John Anderson? A tactical Reagan vote to make sure he wins and ousts Carter?

Could be that they were afraid Anderson would take away more votes from Reagan than Carter .

In the South and North East Urban areas I would say Anderson took more votes from Carter but in the Suburbs Anderson probably took more votes from Reagan . So I would say it depends on the county

[Ilhan Apologist]

What about Ithaca/Tompkins County?

[Calthrina950]

My understanding is a lot of Jews voted for Reagan in 1980 due to unhappiness with Jimmy Carter's foreign policy but then returned to the Democrats in 1984. I'll verify that to be sure.

I watched the 1980 Election Season/Night coverage on CBS and NBC, uploaded to YouTube. I can't remember which network mentioned it, but according to them, Reagan did about the same with Jewish voters as Ford, while virtually all of the Jewish voters which Carter lost went to John Anderson. The coverage doesn't provide much detail about what it was exactly with Carter's Israel policies that upset Jewish voters (possibly state recognition issues?), but they highlight Carter's efforts to defend his policies and to win back defectors. Obviously, these did not work, and Carter's poor performance among Jews is one of the major factors as to why he lost New York to Reagan.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

For the Jewish vote along the last century.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-voting-record-in-u-s-presidential-elections

According to this one, Reagan did a heck of a lot better than Ford.