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 - Statehood to
 	- District of Columbia
 	- Puerto Rico
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+**SICK FOR A WEEK**
+# American Elections 1980-2016
+## Ronald Reagan (1980-1988)
+- 40th president
+- republican
+- fiscal conservative (somewhat, cut social programs, increased military spending)
+- big issues
+	- crime
+	- welfare
+- limited government
+- activist foreign policy
+	- not in a UN way (?)
+	- she used a word for it but it slipped by
+- social conservative
+- new voters: socially conservative working class, middle class in the west, southern conservatives and fundamentalists
+## 1980 - 1984
+He won in 1980 and in 1984 was a landslide victory for Reagan.
+- More than 1/4 of registered democrats voted for Reagan
+- African Americans went 91% of Walter Mondale
+- 66% of Latinos voted democrat
+- In 1984 the american electorate was 89% white and they went for Reagan 2/1.
+- Since 1968 the democrats have lost 4/5 presidential races
+### What caused the realignment
+- Disruption of the existing political order because of the emergence of one or more strongly divisive issues
+- An election where voters shift their support strongly in favor of one party
+- A major change in policy brought about by the stronger party
+- An enduring change in the party coalitions, which works to the lasting advantage of the dominant party
+## George H.W. Bush
+- One term president
+- Not traditionally understood as a period of significance
+- Yet most of the changes that came to define the 21st century in the 1990s
+- "Read my lips, no new taxes"
+- And then new taxes
+- Third straight victory for the GOP
+- Third straight landslide
+- Bush took 50 states
+- GOP won 5/6 elections
+## 1992
+- Modern political problems emerge
+	- Gridlock
+	- Modern talking points
+	- Immigration
+	- Culture war
+	- etc
+- Why?
+	- Republican Revolution
+	- Began personal attacks, This was new in the house
+	- Republican became tougher and more militant under this leadership
+	- First republican Speaker in the house in forty years
+	- A transfer of power so jarring people began asking of the Democratic Party had a future.
+	- Quick backlash against "Gingrich-ism". White collar, professionals found themselves alienated from the new republican party.
+	- Contract with America
+		- Legislative agenda put forward by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional elections
+		- 100 issues
+		- Laws that apply to the rest of the country apply to congress
+		- Cut committees
+		- Require 3/5th vote to increase taxes
+		- Cut welfare programs
+- A step too far
+	- Ken Starr, White Water, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Linda Trippe
+	- "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
+	- House charged Clinton with two crimes: Lying under oath and obstruction of justice
+	- Trial in the senate; neither received the necessary 2/3rds vote
+	- 2nd President to be impeached, but never convicted