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In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan rejuvenated the conservative Republican ideology, with tax cuts, greatly increased defense spending, deregulation, a policy of rolling back communism, a greatly strengthened military and appeals to family values and conservative Judeo-Christian morality.
The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) is the affiliate of the Republican Party in the U.S. state of Florida.It is currently the state's dominant party, controlling 20 out of 28 of Florida's U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, the governorship and all other statewide offices, and has supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
The 1970 Florida gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970, to determine the governor and lieutenant governor of Florida, concurrent with the election to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.
Meanwhile, here’s what I think as a longtime observer of Florida’s history, government and politics: Amendment 1 — Making school board elections partisan: A terrible idea.
Goldwater performed well in the Deep South, but fared poorly in other southern states due to his conservative policies. Goldwater was an opponent of the Tennessee Valley Authority and stated that it "was a big fat sacred New Deal cow". He received significant criticism for this statement and later wrote that "You would have thought I had just ...
“4.5 million text messages and 500,000 mail pieces went to sportsmen and women we identified using data files for license holders in Florida. The results were unprecedented: 25,000 additional ...
The potential for a surge of Haitians arriving in South Florida after fleeing gang violence stirs memories of an earlier time when migrants fled political persecution in Haiti under the ...
In the following decades, conservative policies once considered outside the political mainstream—such as reducing welfare, privatizing Social Security, deregulating banking, considering preemptive war, were taken seriously and sometimes passed into law due in part to the work of the Hoover Institution, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato ...