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.
Obama fooled most of the politically naive into thinking he was a genial TV news anchor. Maybe some of them are starting to figure it out.
That's true.
There was also a lot of overhang from the Nixon era pardon.
Ford was a decent fellow but the MSM worked hard to portray him as an idiot. He probably made the all time debate gaffe declaring Eastern Europe to not be under Soviet domination.
Carter was the bonafide idiot however as history shows.