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Era error: talk of liberalism's triumph is overblown.(2008)(Essay)
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DURING this election season, liberals have often drawn an analogy to the 1980 election. They drew it at first to explain Barack Obama's poll numbers, which were weaker than one might have expected given the Republicans' unpopularity. The 1980 race was tight for much of the year, too, they explained. The public thought that Pres. Jimmy Carter and liberalism had failed, but did not yet trust Ronald Reagan and conservatism. Then Reagan reassured it, and the election ended up not being close.
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