[Hiddigeigei]

"We had a mock election in our class and Carter won by a large margin, about 80%-20%. I remember thinking: 'what is WRONG with these people?!'"

I voted for Carter in his first presidential election. I had hopes he would turn the Democratic Party around from where I saw it headed. I saw Carter as a naval graduate submariner with a southern agricultural family background. My mistake, my hopes were disappointed. He was the last Democrat I voted for.

[Fiji Hill]

Although he had joined the Trilateral Commission, a globalist think tank, and surrounded himself with liberals, I at first thought Carter might govern as a moderate. But he proved to be, as a commentator at the time put it, a Southern-fried McGovern.