To the Editor: Women won the right to vote nearly 100 years ago, yet only about half of millennials (those born between 1980 and 1995) voted in the last presidential election. If all millennial women voted in 2012, they could make a difference. Much is at stake.
Ronald Reagan put the question succinctly to the American voter in the 1980 presidential election: Are you better off than you were four years ago? The electorate's answer then was a definitive 'no,' sending the Republican to a big victory over Democratic incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
where we stand The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus is the right testing ground for presidential candidates. dance of the caucus dates Dates of Iowa caucuses in presidential election years: 1972: Jan. 25 1976: Jan. 19 1980: Jan. 21 1984: Feb. 20 1988: Feb. 8 1992: Feb. 10 1996: Feb. 12 2000: Jan. 24 2004: Jan. 19 2008: Jan. 3 2012: Feb. 6 (subject to change) Oct. 1 - tomorrow - marks the deadline for states to decide when they will hold their 2012 caucus or primary. Whether Iowa changes its plans for a Feb. 6 caucus depends entirely on what other states do. Iowa intends to hold onto its first-in-the-nation status - at least for another presidential election cycle.
Since 1980, women's voting rates have exceeded those of men in every presidential election. Does this suggest that women's issues will have no place this year? Think again. Despite passage of the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gender wage gap persists. Supporting a family is more difficult when women earn only 77 cents on average for every dollar their male colleagues earn. Not only do lower earnings threaten a family's self- sufficiency, they also jeopardize future economic security due to reduced benefits from Social Security and pension plans. Since a woman's lifetime earnings are at stake, the outcome of this election matters.
My favorite stories about In These Times tend to make me look good, and I'll tell one of them, but with a certain altruistic purpose in mind. In 1980, I was covering the presidential election, and there was growing dissatisfaction in the office with what I'd characterize as my creeping centrism. When I went to the Republican convention in Detroit that year, I took off during an afternoon to visit a bar or two in Macomb County where I expected to find Chrysler workers. Armed with a tape recorder, I sat down with several guys who had been recently laid off and asked them about Reagan, Carter, national politics, labor unions, taxes, welfare and foreign policy. They began complaining about the Democrats giving money to blacks and to welfare programs and not caring about them. I transcribed ...
... March in order to appear on the general election ballot in November. On April 24, 1980, petitioner ... a longer opportunity to see how Presidential candidates withstand the close scrutiny of a polit...
A new book by Andrew E. Busch, "The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right" is definitely the best of its kind in what is becoming a crowded field. Mr. Busch (note the spelling difference with that of the presidential family) is excellent in dealing with political history, and at providing political journalism at its best. It seems likely that no one will come away from this sturdy mix of the past, present and future without exclaiming at least once "Gee, I'd forgotten that" or "Now I remember who that guy was running against him in the primaries." Mr. Busch really has come up with a landmark in the American political process. To do so, he drew in all the elements of that sour, bubbling, confused, but ultimately iconic affair.
The 2008 presidential election saw the biggest partisan shift in a generation -- more of a rejection of Republicans than an embrace of Democrats -- but voter surveys find no broad ideological realignment behind that shift. Democrats made up 39 percent of the electorate and Republicans 32 percent in a national exit poll for The Associated Press and television networks. That left the share of voters considering themselves members of the GOP lower than in any presidential election since 1980 and was a sharp contrast with the 37-37 split between the two parties in the 2004 election.
Winston Tubman of Liberia, whose family is related to William Tubman, the ruler of the West African state for nearly a quarter- century before the country slipped into a time of trouble starting in 1980, has announced his candidacy in the presidential election planned for October. The goal of the fall vote is to move beyond the interim government led by Gyude Bryant.
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