Ronald Reagan Beat Jimmy Carter in a Landslide Despite Trailing 6% in Polls?
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| October 23, 2016 | David Emery
Two-and-a-half weeks before the 2016 presidential election, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump trailed behind Democrat Hillary Clinton by an average of 6% in national polls, a statistic that buoyed Clinton supporters, yet failed to rattle diehard supporters of Trump...
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How Carter Beat Reagan (Or how polls got it all wrong)
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The American Spectator ^
| 9.25.12 | Jeffrey Lord
Remember when Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980? That's
right. Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980. In a series of nine stories in 1980 on "Crucial States" -- battleground states as they are known today -- the New York Times repeatedly told readers then-President Carter was in a close and decidedly winnable race with the former California governor. And used polling data from the New York Times/CBS polls to back up its stories. All of which will doubtless serve as a reminder of just how blatantly polling data is manipulated by liberal media -- used essentially as a...
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Jimmy Carter: If I had gone to war with Iran, I would have beaten Reagan or something
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Hotair ^
| 10/01/2014 | Matt Vespa
Former President Jimmy Carter had some interesting things to say about his 1980 defeat to Ronald Reagan; he could have won if he was more ‘manly,’ or something. Carter
admitted that the Iranian hostage crisis, which lasted 444 days, heavily contributed to his defeat. But added that if he had gone to war with Iran, he would have been re-elected (via Washington Examiner): Former President Jimmy Carter claimed Wednesday that he would have been re-elected and beaten Ronald Reagan in 1980 if had been more “manly” in his dealings with Iran.Interviewed by the show “CNBC Meets,†Carter repeated his...
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