[AnAmericanMother]

Well, I voted for him -- my excuse being that I was a college sophomore (at a liberal Yankee school) and voted for him because he was from Georgia and everybody up there despised us all as rednecks. (In Carter's case they were right of course, but I didn't know that.)

I console myself with the thought that he carried Georgia overwhelmingly, so my vote really didn't make a difference one way or the other.

Been kicking myself ever since - I was too young to know what a horrible governor he had been and how much everybody who worked for him hated him. I heard all about that later . . . < blush >

[OldSmaj]

I console myself with the thought that he carried Georgia overwhelmingly...

My father, a life-long GA resident, voted for Cottah, both as Gov and as Prez.

It is/was the only time he ever voted for a Democrat and I know he did, as I took him to the polls and was allowed to assist him in the booth.

But he will not admit to it, today.

He is 83 and will go to his grave insisting that he did not vote for Cottah.

There are many, many just like him, hence my remark about how he ever got elected.

I don't think he could get a write-in for dogcatcher in GA now and history will not treat him kindly, except for those blind few from Plains, that will lionize him in spite of everything.

Go figure.