Posted on 10/21/2009 4:58:28 PM PDT by changeitback440
im curious how carter's '76 victory and obama's '08 victory are similar
You know there is this site called google....
Why don’t you do your own research newbie
Electoral Vote 297 240
States carried 23 + DC 27
Popular vote 40,831,881 39,148,634
Percentage 50.1% 48.0%
Carter barely won.
Imagine we had California and NJ and still lost. The country was way less screwed up then, the radicalization of California has been a real loss.
I did a double take when I saw Texas went for Carter.
Welcome to FR, n00b..
Jimmuh Cartuh and Barry Dunham-Soetoro...
Ah, yes, a lot in common...
:)
totally different.
carter took every state in the south, plus winning texas.
ford carried the center-west. california, oregon, washington, etc.
basically reverse the map from 2008 and you have 1976.
Ignore the PEANUT gallery...
Your question is a valid one and needed an answer!
Carter fooled most of the politically naive into thinking he was a conservative Southern Democrat.
After four years of radical leftist governing, he was not fooling very many. That is why Reagan beat him in a landslide.
The fact that the economy was in bad shape didn’t help him either.
It’s tempting to imagine Carter losing in 1976. He was so bad for America and the world.
But I wonder.
If Ford had won, who would have been President of the United States in 1981?
“...The country was way less screwed up then, the radicalization of California has been a real loss.”
Very good point. Long before I was politically active, CA was quite conservative outside of SF, no? If you know.
teddy kennedy
A lot in common? Well, there was inflation and malaise...I seem to recall something about Iran...I think even a guy named Ahmadinejad was involved, too... I think something was going on in Afghanistan as well...different super power though...Wasn’t swine flu around as well? Can gas lines be far behind?
no freaking way
it wasnt conservative, it was rich.
the gop was the party of country clubs. the democrats were the party of the working class.
That tends to happen when your state is overrun by foreigners.
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