Lessons from Past Primaries

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I wrote a long response but there was a glitch. 1984 has been on my mind ever since the Ebola stories. Because that was the year America reelected the President whose Press Sec had laughed about AIDS in 1982 and thus far that was the only action his administration had taken and the only words spoken. In 1984 there had been 7,239 cases of AIDS reported in the US and 5,596 deaths. This was public knowledge, people knew these things and voted for Reagan anyway. Do we have 5 US Ebola deaths yet? Yeah.
It is good that people remember that there were clear choices offered. There was even Jesse Jackson, and I wish he'd won. Or Mondale, if he'd won it would have made all the difference in the world. Any Democrat at all would have been better than Reagan/Bush.