Authors Mike Kimel and Michael Kanell use data to turn some commonly held assumptions on their head in interview The ‘Conservative’ Reagan and Other Political Myths Dispelled with reporter Zach…

…year or more term: FDR, Ike, Reagan, Clinton and GW. Additionally, there are several more “quasi-eight year terms.” These are instances in which a VP took over upon the death…

…three groups: those who faced mostly split Congresses (throughout most of Reagan’s term, Republicans controlled the Senate and Democrats controlled the House of Representatives), those who faced all or mostly…

…pretty good in stretches (pieces of the Reagan and Clinton administrations) and frankly, pretty lousy (most of the Bush and Bush administrations). I wonder whether perhaps the automatic stabilizers and…

…should not be long until we can start showing charts of presidential comparisons like this table. the interesting comparison will be between Obama and Reagan. Of course the Reagan administration…

…it before they die) calls for rethinking the “tax cuts are always good” mentality that was set in motion with Ronald Reagan’s “privatization, deregulation, militarization, and tax cut” dogma. We…

…get the Nixon vote up to 60%. If the Johnson deficits caused such damage then what could we expect from the Reagan Bush and Bush deficits. R Samuelson’s “analysis” is…

…seventy years and finally got its opportunity to be put in play in 1980 with the election of Ronald “Government is not the solution, government is the problem” Reagan. As…

…interests of other Americans. By contrast, it was relatively easy for Ronald Reagan to assemble a coalition built around lower taxes and inflation that started with the well-off but expanded…

by cactus Two Wings of the Republican Party A few facts (labeled with “F”s) and a few questions (labeled with “Q”s): F1. Sarah Palin has stated that if McCain loses,…