My recollection is that the media installed Carter in retribution for Ford's pardoning Nixon ostensibly. Carter just smiled and won. He never articulated any positions to be judged on and the rest is history.
Not that Ford would have really been that much better, but he wasn't a socialist.
26 posted on 05/27/2004 5:47:41 AM PDT by Thebaddog
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