Reagan's Words & the 2004 Election

Here is a statement President Reagan delivered in 1980. If Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) read this famous speech word-for-word, he would deliver a stinging indictment of President Bush's record, as the majority of Americans would answer a resounding "no."

OCTOBER 28, 1980: "All of you will go to the polls and stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better of than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? If you answer all of those questions 'yes,' why, then, I think your choice is very obvious as to who you'll vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last four years is what you'd like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have."