win but majority was un-young, un-black, un-poor. how badly? we know but just bear with me on two statistics. democrats won 50% of the vote to only twice since 1970. that was jimmy carter 1976 and obama's 2008. not clinton, truman, not jfk and if you go back further on the fdr, lbj, carter and obama exceeded the 50% mark. i think they're real majority the un-young, un-black, un-poor majority worked well for the republican party. it worked well because democrats succeeded. think of that for a moment. the new deal was geared to a nation that was 1/3 ill clad or ill housed or ill nourished. there was work to do and that was successful. by 1980 we had a relatively prosperous middle-class suburban country that was not worried about what government ought to be doing for them, but saw themselves as the proprietors of government that taxed too much thomas been too much and put on the green eye shades of government. of course, ronald reagan is such a good example of that journey from the new deal democrat as he was to expounding a reagan revolution park