The 'Conservative' Reagan and Other Political Myths Dispelled

Authors Mike Kimel and Michael Kanell use data to turn some commonly held assumptions on their head

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Why aren't there more books like this?

Anytime you write something like this, you're going to be called biased, whether you are or not. For instance, on a lot of economic issues, the Democrats tended to do better than Republicans. That was a surprise to us.

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I think some of the reasons abortion went down so much during Clinton's presidency was the economy was great with the rise of the Internet and the dot-com era, and the stigmas against illegimate children were largely dropped. I wonder what the percentage of children born to single mothers was in the '80s compared to the '90s. Certainly when I was growing up in the '70s and '80s there were lots of children of divorced parents, but I only knew one child whose parents had never been married (and we all thought it was terribly scandalous). With that cultural shift taking place, I could see how the percentages could drop so dramatically in little under a decade.

Cindy of TX 11:41PM September 12, 2010

Interesting to see a statistical analysis instead of the usual partisan rants.
Republicans have been saying one thing and doing another consistantly since Reagan. Both he and Bush II spent like drunken sailors until we were solid military and deficit ridden. The facts bear that out. The last honest Republican President was Eisenhower. He was the one who warned us about the rising influence of the military contractors and their financeers (the military industrial complex), really stood behind the civil rights guaranteed in the constitution, and he built the interstate highway system that brought propserity to so many "out of the way" places.
Listen up voters - be sure you understand what the GOP means when it says it is against big government. This usually means they cheerfuly spend on the military while cutting off the Middle Class.
This should be required reading for all American voters.

DeeToo of SC 4:07PM September 09, 2010

The 'Conservative' Reagan and Other Political Myths Dispelled

Authors Mike Kimel and Michael Kanell use data to turn some commonly held assumptions on their head

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