How Reagan got elected, a loop hole in campaign finance

[Penelope]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Stephanie]

ok dokey.
and maybe you can fill us in on how Obama was elected. Because even today Millions are still wondering about that. someone with his no experience, a Muslim sympathizer, and who did nothing but go around the WORLD apologizing for us including YOU who voted for him.
and the record he had at the time of his re-election. Jimmy had a record like that and he didn't get re-elected. well you get the picture and now you SEE WHERE we are now worse off because of it

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Why is it when something like Paris happens the left brings up Reagan? Put the god damn blame where it lies, Ears and his disastrous foreign policy

 

[Stephanie]

Why is it when something like Paris happens the left brings up Reagan? Put the god damn blame where it lies, Ears and his disastrous foreign policy

it makes me sick to be watching this happen over there. first to watch them being Invaded by people they want to call, Refugees. . but then when they come in and start spreading lies and bringing up like it's someone else's fault.


We need to Just keep throwing in their face. What did they EXPECT when Obama has bombed Seven different countries in the Middle east since he's been in office. seriously he is the FAULT OF ALL THIS. there was no reason to bomb half of them and then take out their leaders, be they were bad guys. but then HE LEFT the countries DEFENSELESS against the Vultures who swept down on them. I've called for his Impeachment from the first damn day of his joke of a swearing in. But now HIS and his parties chickens are coming to roost and it's against us and the world as we now see.

what makes this even worse. is he did ALL THIS WITHOUT our Representation of CONGRESS. and I'll be damned if we saw ONE ANTI-war protester.

SNIP:
Barack Obama: The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who’s Bombed 7 Countries
U.S. jets are bombing Syria again this month, part of an overall pattern of military expansion during the Obama administration that’s seen military involvement in dozens of conflicts.


By MintPress News Desk | August 19, 2015

WASHINGTON — As the United States renews a bombing campaign against ISIS forces in Syria, it seems like America’s penchant for waging war knows no bounds. During the first seven years of Barack Obama’s presidency, the U.S. bombed seven countries while supporting other destabilizing military actions throughout the Middle East.

Here’s a look at these seven countries and the effects of bombing:

all of it here:
Barack Obama: The Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who’s Bombed 7 Countries

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Obama is a bench warmer trying to play in the Super Bowl, he's waaaaay out of his league

 

[Dante]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terrible piece and leaving out far too many relevant facts. Terry was a co-founder of NCPAC. Do you even know who Terry's brother is/was?

 

[Dante]

Penelope Reagan did NOT get elected because of any loopholes in election campaign finance laws.

While Dante gives you a B+ for discovering Dolan, he gives you a C+ for context and depth of understanding/

Too bad your OP was wasted with the right wing trolls taking over. It showed promise

 

[Conservative65]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reagan got elected because he receive a majority of electoral votes against two dumbass Democrats.

 

[Penelope]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reagan got elected because he receive a majority of electoral votes against two dumbass Democrats.

I just posted how he got elected, by Christians using a loophole and using vicious attacks on the Dems.

 

[Conservative65]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reagan got elected because he receive a majority of electoral votes against two dumbass Democrats.

I just posted how he got elected, by Christians using a loophole and using vicious attacks on the Dems.

You posted excuses for why Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale got their asses kicked.

 

[Penelope]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terrible piece and leaving out far too many relevant facts. Terry was a co-founder of NCPAC. Do you even know who Terry's brother is/was?

Reagans speech writer. It didn't hurt Reagan was an actor and well I guess women in those days thought he was good looking.

 

[Penelope]

Penelope Reagan did NOT get elected because of any loopholes in election campaign finance laws.

While Dante gives you a B+ for discovering Dolan, he gives you a C+ for context and depth of understanding/

Too bad your OP was wasted with the right wing trolls taking over. It showed promise

Are you saying the articles in the OP are nonsense?

 

[Dante]

Reagan got elected because he receive a majority of electoral votes against two dumbass Democrats.

you be the dumbass, as what Penelope was obviously referring to was how Reagan's campaign and supporters helped him to win the election.

you failed attempt at being pedantic has fallen with a big fat thud

 

[Penelope]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reagan got elected because he receive a majority of electoral votes against two dumbass Democrats.

I just posted how he got elected, by Christians using a loophole and using vicious attacks on the Dems.

You posted excuses for why Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale got their asses kicked.

Right.

 

[Dante]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terrible piece and leaving out far too many relevant facts. Terry was a co-founder of NCPAC. Do you even know who Terry's brother is/was?

Reagans speech writer. It didn't hurt Reagan was an actor and well I guess women in those days thought he was good looking.

Reagan was good looking. He was straight out of central casting

 

[Dante]

Penelope Reagan did NOT get elected because of any loopholes in election campaign finance laws.

While Dante gives you a B+ for discovering Dolan, he gives you a C+ for context and depth of understanding/

Too bad your OP was wasted with the right wing trolls taking over. It showed promise

Are you saying the articles in the OP are nonsense?

Out of a fuller context. lrt

 

[Dante]

too bad...
You may not start a conversation with the following recipients: Penelope.

Title: The New Right of the 1970s/1980s

I was unfair, but that is because....

....
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...on many web sites

great primer
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Dante has little time for weirdos and paranoid freaks on anonymous message boards

ltr = later in the next lifetime

 

[CrusaderFrank]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Dante]

which today has snowballed out of control.


A Reagan disciple and brash political operative, Dolan was the founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, known as NCPAC (pronounced "nick pack"). Freed by the Buckley decision, which shot down fundraising and spending limits on independent groups, Dolan forged NCPAC into a formidable political machine

Dolan made no bones about his brass-knuckles style. "A group like ours," he once said, "could lie through its teeth, and the candidate it helps stays clean." Democrats branded Dolan a lying "extremist," while patrician Republicans sneered at his smashmouth tactics. Yet when they weren't bashing Dolan, his enemies scrambled to catch up. Strategist Peter Fenn urged fellow Democrats to "get down in the gutter with NCPAC" if they wanted to win.

NCPAC, which faded away in the years after Dolan's death, illustrated a larger trend in post-Buckley politics: the rise of the political action committee. At the end of 1974, there were 600 registered PACs; nine years later, there were 3,500. PACs spent $23 million on congressional races in 1976; by 1982, it was $80 million.

PACs came in all varieties: independent committees like NCPAC, trade association PACs, party PACs, and more. There were PACs representing whole industries, like the mighty Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), formed by the National Association of Manufacturers, which grew so large and cash-flush that in the 1980s it rivaled the parties as the true power broker in Washington.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/history-money-american-elections?page=2

For those who do not know who John Dolan was, he was a conservative Christian critical of gay rights, who he himself was gay and was said to of died of aids. Reagan had the Christian right behind him, evangelicals, aka so right, not much different that the radical Muslims. (not all evangelicals are that way)

John Terrence "Terry" Dolan (1950 – December 28, 1986) was an AmericanNew Right political activist who was a co-founder and chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).[1] Dolan was also, during the mid to late 1970s, in the leadership of Christian Voice, "the nation’s oldest conservative Christian lobby." [2]

While Dolan was a proponent of family values and the organizations he led were persistently critical of gay rights, he was revealed to have been a closetedhomosexual[3][4][5][6] who frequented gay bars in Washington, D.C.[7] He died from complications of AIDS at the age of 36.[8]

Terry Dolan (activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1984.

But in 1980 Reagan only won with 50.8% of the vote when the turnout was a mere 52.7%


Electoral vote 489
States carried 44

 

[Dante]

But in 1980 Reagan only won with 50.8% of the vote when the turnout was a mere 52.7%


Electoral vote 489
States carried 44

But in 2008 Obama won with 52.9% ... of the vote when .......... the turnout was 61.6%


Electoral vote 365
States carried 28 + DC + NE-02 22

Popular vote Obama 69,498,516 - McCain 59,948,323
Percentage 52.9%